BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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SENATE THIRD READING
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85 (Hall)
As Introduced August 17, 2015
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Rules |8-0 |Gordon, Chang, Burke, | |
| | |Campos, Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Recognizes the month of November 2015 as the Nursing
Home Caregiver Professionals and Long Term Care Provider Month.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)There are 136,000 skilled nursing home professionals in
California, of which 47,000 workers deliver quality
institutional care to our most vulnerable residents, including
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seniors, adults, and children with disabilities in California.
2)The number of seniors requiring long term care will
drastically increase as the number of Californians who are 65
years of age or older is estimated to grow to nine million
people in the next 15 years.
3)Nursing home caregivers provide essential services to
residents that maintain the highest practicable physical,
mental, and psychosocial wellbeing of the people they serve.
4)The work of nursing home caregivers often goes unnoticed, as
do the financial struggles caregivers and their families
experience in order to provide this lifeline service to those
in need.
5)Providing long-term care workers with a living wage will
generate the demand for goods and services in the local
economy, stimulate increased employment opportunities, and
drive workers and their families one step closer to getting
out of poverty.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN:
0001898
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