BILL NUMBER: SB 473	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Bates

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1796.19 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 473, as introduced, Bates. Home care services.
   The Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act, operative January
1, 2016, provides for the registration of home care aides. Existing
law requires the State Department of Social Services to consider
specified information when determining whether to approve a home care
aide's registration application, including, among other things,
evidence satisfactory to the department of the home care aide
applicant's ability to comply with the act and the rules and
regulations promulgated by the department under the act.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1796.19 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1796.19.  (a) The department shall consider, but is not limited
 to,   to considering, all of  the
following when determining whether to approve a registration
application:
   (1) Evidence satisfactory to the department of  the
ability of  the home care aide  applicant 
 applicant's ability  to comply with this chapter and the
rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter by the
department.
   (2) Evidence satisfactory to the department that the home care
aide applicant is of reputable and responsible character. The
evidence shall include, but is not limited to, a review of the
independent home care aide applicant's criminal offender record
information pursuant to Section 1522.
   (3) Any revocation or other disciplinary action taken, or in the
process of being taken, related to the care of individuals against
the home care aide applicant.
   (4) Any other information that may be required by the department
for the proper administration and enforcement of this chapter.
   (b) Failure of the home care aide applicant to cooperate with the
department in the completion of the Home Care Aide application shall
result in the withdrawal of the registration application. "Failure to
cooperate" means that the information described in this chapter and
by any rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter has not
been provided, or has not been provided in the form requested by the
department, or both.