BILL NUMBER: AB 1199	CHAPTERED  09/20/00

	CHAPTER   558
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 20, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 23, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 7, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 14, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   FEBRUARY 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 22, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Firebaugh

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to amend Section 9563 of the Welfare and Institutions Code,
relating to aging.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1199, Firebaugh.  Aging programs.
   Existing law, the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act,
establishes the Multipurpose Senior Services Program to provide
specified services to frail elderly individuals 65 years of age and
older who are certifiable for placement in a nursing facility.
Existing law requires the California Department of Aging to formulate
criteria for approval and designation of local Multipurpose Senior
Services Program sites.
   Existing law does not require existing Multipurpose Senior
Services Program sites to be reprocured periodically.
   This bill would instead provide that the department is not
required to procure existing sites by the competitive bid process,
unless it is deemed in the best interests of the state to do so.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 9563 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   9563.  The department shall formulate criteria for approval and
designation of local Multipurpose Senior Services Program sites.  The
criteria shall include, but need not be limited to, all of the
following:
   (a) Specifications for a social and health review team to evaluate
older individuals and to ensure that continuity of social, economic,
and health services is provided to maintain older individuals at the
appropriate level of care.
   (b) Development of social and health services necessary to
maintain the older individual at the appropriate level of care.
   (c) Specifications for the quality of the social and health
services to be provided.
   (d) Coordination and integration of the social and health services
described in Section 9561.
   (e) The number of local sites, which shall be consistent with the
funds made available for purposes of this chapter.
   (f) Coordination with local governmental and nonprofit agencies
concerned with multipurpose senior services.
   (g) Maximize utilization of local resources, including service
provided by established community-based senior citizen organizations
and information and referral networks.
   (h) Specifications for the evaluation of the proposals submitted
for the new local sites and for the evaluation of the local sites.
   (i) Conditions for determining the need for procurement of
existing sites.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the
department is not required to procure existing sites by the
competitive bidding process, unless it deems it in the best interests
of the state to do so.