BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 873 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
As Amended August 12, 2014
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE : Vote not relevant
BUDGET 25-1
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Gorell, Bloom, | | |
| |Campos, Ch�vez, Chesbro, | | |
| |Daly, Dickinson, Gordon, | | |
| |Grove, Harkey, | | |
| |Jones-Sawyer, Mansoor, | | |
| |Melendez, Mullin, | | |
| |Muratsuchi, Nazarian, | | |
| |Nestande, Patterson, | | |
| |Rodriguez, Stone, Ting, | | |
| |Wagner, Weber, Dababneh | | |
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|Nays:|Allen | | |
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SUMMARY : This is the Human Services Clean-Up Trailer Bill for
the 2014-15 Budget. It contains necessary clean-up changes and
technical corrections related to the Budget Act of 2014. This
bill makes various statutory changes to implement the 2014-15
Budget. Specifically, this bill :
1)Makes various technical changes regarding temporary managers
and receiverships for facilities licensed by the Community
Care Licensing (CCL) Division at the State Department of
Social Services (DSS), amending law that was codified in SB
855 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 29, Statutes
of 2014, (Chapter 29). Among related changes, provides that
if the revenues are insufficient to reimburse the department
for the costs of the temporary manager, the salary of the
receiver, or related expenses, the unreimbursed amount shall
constitute grounds for a monetary judgment in civil court and
subsequent lien upon the assets of the facility or the
proceeds from the sale thereof.
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2)Refines, for purposes of the Approved Relative Caregiver
Funding Option Program that was created in Chapter 29, the
definition of the children affected to remove an erroneous
reference and deletes the requirement that the funding of the
applicable per-child California Work Opportunity and
Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) grant be limited to the
federal funds received, which was unintentional in the
original drafting.
3)Extends a specified exception to the group home moratorium in
current law for rate classification level changes below 10 to
the 2014-15 fiscal year.
4)Provides that if the income for a CalWORKs program assistance
unit that excludes specified adults includes reasonably
anticipated income derived from child support, the first $50
of any amount of child support received each month shall not
be considered income or resources and shall not be deducted
from the amount of aid to which the assistance unit otherwise
would be eligible. This clarifies language previously adopted
in Chapter 29.
5)Deems an In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) provider, if
certain conditions are met, authorized to work a recipient's
county-approved adjusted hours for the week when a recipient's
weekly authorized hours are adjusted and at the time of
adjustment the recipient currently receives all authorized
hours of services from one provider. This conforms to the
agreement between parties resulting in the IHSS overtime
management statutory changes in Chapter 29.
6)Extends authorization for all-county letters and similar
instructions to additional provisions of Chapter 29 that
relate to the CalFresh program. These were inadvertently
excluded in the prior legislation.
7)Includes Budget Bill changes to effectuate the transfer of
$1.7 million appropriated in Item 5180-153-0001 to Item
5180-151-0001, Program 25.30, which is a budget-neutral change
to consolidate the $5 million appropriation in the Budget for
the newly-created Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
(CSEC) program. The CSEC program was created in Chapter 29.
8)Provides that the continuous appropriation applicable to
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CalWORKs is not made for purposes of implementing the bill.
9)Declares that this bill is to take effect immediately as a
bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
COMMENTS : This bill is a budget trailer bill within the overall
2014-15 budget package to implement actions taken affecting the
Departments of Social Services, Child Support Services, Health
Care Services, and the Office of the Secretary of State.
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Vazquez / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099
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