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          Date of Hearing:   July 7, 2005

                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
                                Cindy Monta?ez, Chair
                      ACR 15 (Evans) - As Amended:  July 1, 2005
           
          SUBJECT  :   In-Home Supportive Services Home Care Worker  
          Recognition Week.

           SUMMARY  :   Proclaims the second week of November to be In-Home  
          Supportive Services (IHSS) Home Care Worker Recognition Week,  
          and recognizes and commends the contributions of IHSS caregivers  
          who serve families and communities.  Specifically,  this  
          resolution  makes the following legislative findings:  

          1)IHSS is recognized nationally as the preferred way to provide  
            assistance to people who need long-term care, and California  
            has provided home care services for over a quarter of a  
            century at one fifth the cost to taxpayers as care provided in  
            nursing homes during the 2005-06 fiscal year.

          2)Nearly 325,000 IHSS home care workers provide 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 this is a  
            humane, dignified, and compassionate alternative to  
            hospitalization or other institutional placement.

          3)The work of California's IHSS home care workers requires great  
            sensitivity, honesty, patience, trust, commitment, dedication  
            and compassion, and is both physically demanding and  
            emotionally challenging.

          4)In 2004, numerous national organizations jointly declared the  
            month of November as National Home Care Month to recognize,  
            honor and support the valuable contributions of home care  
            workers.
           
          FISCAL EFFECT  :   None.

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file.








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           Opposition 
           
          None on file.

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Anna McCabe / RLS. / (916) 319-2800