BILL NUMBER: AB 2430	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 19020 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to blind individuals.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2430, as introduced, Chesbro. Department of Rehabilitation:
blindness.
   Under existing law, the Department of Rehabilitation provides
comprehensive, coordinated, effective, efficient, and accountable
programs of vocational rehabilitation and independent living for
individuals with disabilities, particularly individuals with the most
severe disabilities, so that these individuals may prepare for and
engage in gainful employment and live more independently.
    Existing law requires the department to recommend to each
organization or agency, the purpose of which is to provide services
to the blind, that receives grants or contracts from the department
the number of blind members of the board that is appropriate to meet
the needs of the community being served by that board.
   This bill would, instead, require that an organization or agency
whose sole purpose is to provide services to the blind or visually
impaired, that receives grants or contracts from the department, have
at least 20% blind or visually impaired individuals as board
members.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 19020 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   19020.  (a)  On and after July 1, 1993,   At
least 20 percent of  the  department shall recommend to
  board of  each organization or  agency,
the purpose of which   agency whose sole mission 
is to provide services to individuals who are  blind,
  blind or visually impaired,  that receives grants
or contracts from the department,  the number of 
 shall be  blind  members of the board that is
appropriate to meet the needs of the community being served by that
board   or visually impaired individuals  .
   (b) As used in this section, "blind" means the same as defined in
Section 12050 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.