BILL NUMBER: SB 791	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 2, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 19, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Yee

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 12302.27 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to public social services, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 791, Yee. In-home supportive services: providers: COBRA.
   Existing law provides for the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
program, under which, either through employment by the recipient or
by or through contract by the county, qualified, aged, blind, and
disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their
own homes.
   This bill would provide that, for purposes of in-home supportive
services providers, the entity that administers health benefits under
the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)
shall be the same entity that implements a specified federal COBRA
subsidy program for these providers.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12302.27 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   12302.27.  The entity that administers the COBRA health benefit
for in-home supportive services providers shall be the same entity
responsible for implementing the subsidy program in Title III of
Division B of the federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
(Public Law 111-5) for these providers.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to access federal funding at the earliest possible time,
it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.