BILL NUMBER: ACR 15	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 1, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 1, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 27, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Evans
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass,
Benoit, Berg, Bermudez, Blakeslee, Bogh, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan,
Chavez, Chu, Cogdill, Cohn, Coto, Daucher, De La Torre, DeVore,
Dymally, Emmerson, Frommer, Garcia, Goldberg, Hancock, Jerome Horton,
Shirley Horton, Houston, Jones, Keene, Koretz, La Malfa, La Suer,
Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu, Matthews, Maze, Montanez,
Mountjoy, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nation, Nava, Negrete McLeod, Nunez,
Oropeza, Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Richman, Sharon Runner, Ruskin,
Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer, Strickland, Torrico, Tran, Umberg, Vargas,
Wolk, Wyland, and Yee)

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2005

   Relative to In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker
Recognition Week.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 15, Evans  In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker
Recognition Week.
   This bill would proclaim the second week of November to be In-Home
Supportive Services (IHSS) Home Care Worker Recognition Week, and
would recognize, and commend the contributions of IHSS caregivers who
give their time, patience, care, and support to their families and
the entire community.




   WHEREAS, For over a quarter of a century California has provided
home care services to a very high proportion of its residents through
a unique, fiscally sound alternative to institutional care; and
   WHEREAS, That home care program, In-Home Supportive Services
(IHSS), is now recognized nationally and is being replicated in other
states as the preferred way to provide assistance to people who need
long-term care; and
   WHEREAS, IHSS is estimated by the State Department of Social
Services to serve 374,986 aging, disabled, and blind residents in the
2005-06 fiscal year at one fifth of the cost to taxpayers as care
provided in nursing homes; and
   WHEREAS, Nearly 325,000 IHSS home care workers provide home care
services and support, making it possible for approximately 375,000
low-income disabled and elderly residents in California to remain
living independently in their homes; and
   WHEREAS, In 2004, numerous national organizations joined together
in declaring the month of November as National Home Care Month to
recognize, honor and support the valuable contributions of home care
workers; and
   WHEREAS, Providing services and support for the disabled and
elderly to remain living in their homes is a humane, dignified, and
compassionate alternative to hospitalization or other institutional
placement; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS home care workers requires
great sensitivity, honesty, patience, trust, commitment, dedication,
and compassion; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS home care workers is both
physically demanding and emotionally challenging; and
   WHEREAS, The work of California's IHSS home care workers promotes
independence, dignity, and quality-of-life for California's disabled
and elderly residents; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved By the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the second
week of November as In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker
Recognition Week; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature recognizes and commends the
contributions of IHSS home care workers who give their time,
patience, care, and support to their families and the entire
community.