BILL NUMBER: AB 1296	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 4648.4 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to developmental services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1296, as introduced, Blumenfield. Developmental services:
regional centers.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Developmental Services
provides funding for regional centers for the provision or purchase
of services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities.
   Existing law, with certain exceptions, prohibits a regional center
from paying any provider of specified services a rate that is
greater than the rate that is in effect on June 30, 2008, unless the
increase is required by contract between the regional center and the
vendor that is in effect on June 30, 2008.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
above 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 4648.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   4648.4.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or
regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, rates for services listed in
paragraphs (1), (2), with the exception of travel reimbursement, (3)
to (8), inclusive, (10), and (11) of subdivision (b), shall be
increased by 3 percent, subject to funds  that are 
specifically appropriated for this increase in the Budget Act of
2006. The increase shall be applied as a percentage, and the
percentage shall be the same for all providers. Any subsequent change
shall be governed by subdivision (b).
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation,
except for subdivision (a), no regional center may pay any provider
of the following services or supports a rate that is greater than the
rate that is in effect on or after June 30, 2008, unless the
increase is required by a contract between the regional center and
the vendor that is in effect on June 30, 2008, or the regional center
demonstrates that the approval is necessary to protect the consumer'
s health or safety and the department has granted prior written
authorization:
   (1) Supported living services.
   (2) Transportation, including travel reimbursement.
   (3) Socialization training programs.
   (4) Behavior intervention training.
   (5) Community integration training programs.
   (6) Community activities support services.
   (7) Mobile day programs.
   (8) Creative art programs.
   (9) Supplemental day services program supports.
   (10) Adaptive skills trainers.
   (11) Independent living specialists.