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          Bill No:  SB 93
          Author:   Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
          Amended:  7/11/11 
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE FLOOR  :  Not relevant 

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  48-27, 7/11/11 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Budget Act of 2011:  Human Services

          SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill makes statutory changes necessary to 
          implement human services-related portions of the 2011-12 
          Budget Act. 

           Assembly Amendments  delete the Senate version of the bill 
          expressing the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory 
          changes relating to the 2011 Budget Act and place current 
          language relating to human services.

           ANALYSIS  :    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.  Counties are responsible for the administration 
          of the IHSS program.  Under the Medi-Cal program, similar 
          services are provided to eligible individuals, with these 
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          services known as personal care option services.

          Existing law authorized an individual who was eligible for 
          IHSS services in the 1992-93 fiscal year, and who had 
          his/her services reduced pursuant to specified provisions, 
          but who believed that he/she was at serious risk of 
          out-of-home placement unless all or part of the reduced 
          hours were restored, to apply for an IHSS Care Supplement, 
          as prescribed.

          Existing law established a similar reduction in authorized 
          IHSS service hours, which becomes operative only if a 
          specified medication machine pilot project does not achieve 
          a designated amount of savings to the General Fund, as 
          determined by the Department of Finance, and also 
          authorizes an individual whose services have been reduced, 
          and who believes that he/she is at serious risk of 
          out-of-home placement, to submit an IHSS Care Supplement 
          application, in accordance with specified provisions, in 
          order to have all or part of the service hour reduction 
          restored.

          Existing law also requires the Department of Social 
          Services to implement a 3.6 percent reduction in service 
          hours to each IHSS recipient, until July 1, 2012.

          Existing law, effective January 1, 2012, imposes an 
          additional 20 percent service hour reduction on IHSS 
          recipients, which would be operative only if a designated 
          provision of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative, and 
          establishes an IHSS Care Supplement process for any 
          individual who is notified of a reduction in service hours 
          under the bill, but who believes he/she is at serious risk 
          of out-of-home placement unless all or part of the 
          reduction is restored.

          This bill (1) makes a technical correction to correctly 
          identify the component, subdivision (b), of Control Section 
          3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 that would cause the 
          reduction in In-Home Supportive Services to be implemented 
          under the triggers included in the budget package, and (2) 
          adds an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect 
          immediately upon enactment. 


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           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  Yes   Fiscal Com.:  Yes   
          Local:  No

          Appropriates $1,000 to the Department of Health Care 
          Services for administration purposes.


           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  48-27, 7/11/11
          AYES:  Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Block, Blumenfield, 
            Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles 
            Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Davis, 
            Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, 
            Gatto, Gordon, Hall, Hayashi, Roger Hern�ndez, Hill, 
            Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Lara, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, 
            Mendoza, Monning, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Skinner, 
            Solorio, Torres, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. 
            P�rez
          NOES:  Achadjian, Bill Berryhill, Conway, Cook, Donnelly, 
            Fletcher, Beth Gaines, Garrick, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, 
            Harkey, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Logue, Mansoor, Miller, 
            Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Silva, Smyth, 
            Valadao, Wagner
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Beall, Gorell, Mitchell, Portantino, 
            Swanson


          DLW:mw  7/13/11   Senate Floor Analyses 

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