BILL NUMBER: AB 2634	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garrick

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 38000 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2634, as introduced, Garrick. Public social services: direct
service contracts.
   Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature,
with respect to direct service contracts of the departments within
the California Health and Human Services Agency, that the contract
approval process and payment for services rendered occur within
specified timeframes.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
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 38000 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   38000.  The Legislature states its intent with respect to direct
service contracts of the departments within the  California 
Health and  Welfare   Human Services 
Agency as follows:
   (a)   Contract   The contract  approval
process should take no longer than 30 days from the time the
administrative agency generating the contract has approved its
provisions.
   (b)  Payment for services rendered shall take no longer than 30
days after an invoice has been approved by the responsible
department.
   (c)  If contract approval or payment or both are delayed, the
state shall notify community based agencies within 15 days with
instructions to either defer or interrupt services to be contracted.
If the state requests an agency to continue providing services,
conditions shall be mutually agreed upon in advance for amortization
of particular additional costs to the agency involved.