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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1477
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 8/11/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE : 15-0, 8/14/14
AYES: Leno, Nielsen, Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block,
Corbett, Jackson, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Roth,
Torres, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Hancock
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2014: Human Services Trailer Bill
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill provides for statutory changes necessary to
enact human services-related provisions of the Budget Act of
2014.
ANALYSIS : This bill makes statutory changes necessary to
implement the Budget Act of 2014, including clarifications or
corrections to errors made when the budget and the human
services trailer bill (SB 855, Committee on Budget and Fiscal
Review, Chapter 29, Statutes of 2014) were enacted in June 2014.
1.Community Care Licensing . SB 855 established a process for
the Department of Social Services (DSS) to appoint a temporary
manager or receiver to act as the provisional licensee of the
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community care facility, if DSS determines that residents of
the facility are likely to be in danger of serious injury or
death, and the immediate relocation of clients is not
feasible. The temporary manager or receiver assumes operation
of a facility to bring it into compliance; to facilitate a
transfer of ownership to a new licensee; or, to assure the
transfer of residents, if the facility is required to close.
This bill clarifies that the unreimbursed costs to DSS for
temporary management/receivership is grounds for monetary
judgment in civil court and is a subsequent lien upon a
facility's assets. This bill establishes that the authority
to place a lien against specified property for reimbursement
of any state funds must be given judgment creditor priority.
2.Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Option Program . Effective
January 1, 2015, counties, who opt-in to the Approved Relative
Caregiver Funding Program, must pay an approved relative
caregiver a per child, per month rate, in return for the care
and supervision of a federally- ineligible Aid to Families
with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) child placed
with the relative caregiver, equal to the base rate paid to
foster care providers for a federally-eligible AFDC-FC child,
if the county has notified the department of its decision to
participate in the program.
This bill clarifies eligibility criteria for relative
caregiver funding. Also, this bill clarifies that the
CalWORKs grant includes federal funding and a county
share-of-cost.
3.Group Home Moratorium . Existing law, as authorized by SB 1041
(Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, Chapter 47, Statutes
of 2012) provides specified exceptions to the group home
moratorium on group home applications and rate changes. This
bill includes fiscal year 2014-15 for which exceptions to the
group home moratorium may apply.
4.CalWORKs Child Support Disregard . This bill clarifies that
the first $50 of child support payments received each month,
including income that is regularly anticipated, must be
disregarded as income and must not be deducted from the amount
of aid for which the recipient would otherwise be eligible.
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5.In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) . This bill clarifies that
an IHSS provider is authorized to work the recipient's
adjusted weekly authorized hours, only if the adjusted hours
do not result in exceeding the allowable number of hours
worked that are compensable for overtime.
6.All-County Letters . This bill authorizes DSS to implement
changes pertaining to CalFresh eligibility through all-county
letters until regulations are adopted.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, the
2014 Budget Act includes $5 million General Fund, split between
Item 5180-151-0001 ($3.3 million) and Item 5180-153-0001 ($1.7
million), to establish Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
Program. This bill shifts the entire $1.7 million appropriated
in Item 5180-153-0001 to Item 5180-151-0001.
JA:nl 8/18/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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