BILL NUMBER: AB 2574	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1727 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to home health agencies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2574, as introduced, Fletcher. Home health agencies.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses
and regulates home health agencies and the provision of home health
aide services, as defined.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to those
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 1727 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1727.  (a) "Home health agency" means a private or public
organization, including, but not limited to, any partnership,
corporation, political subdivision of the state, or other government
agency within the state  , which   that 
provides, or arranges for the provision of, skilled nursing services,
to persons in their temporary or permanent place of residence.
   (b) "Skilled nursing services" means services provided by a
registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse.
   (c) "Home Health Aide" means an aide who has successfully
completed a state-approved training program, is employed by a home
health agency or hospice program, and provides personal care services
in the patient's home.
   (d) "Home health aide services" means personal care services
provided under a plan of treatment prescribed by the patient's
physician and surgeon who is licensed to practice medicine in the
state. Home health aide services shall be provided by a person
certified by the state department as a home health aide pursuant to
this chapter. Services  which   that  do
not involve personal care services provided under a plan of treatment
prescribed by a physician and surgeon may be provided by a person
who is not a certified home health aide. Home health aide services
shall not include services provided pursuant to Article 7 (commencing
with Section 12300) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code.