SB 1440, as introduced, Wolk. Veterans’ homes: fees and charges.
Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of the Veterans Home of California at various sites for aged and disabled veterans who meet certain eligibility requirements. Existing law requires members of the homes to pay fees and charges as determined by the department, but prohibit the total of the member’s fees and charges for specified types of care for any fiscal year to be greater than a certain percentage of the member’s annual income. Existing law also requires nonveteran spouses who become members of the home on or after July 1, 2009, to pay fees and charges based on the level of care, as specified, or an amount equal to the annual amount of federal per diem received for a veteran member in domiciliary care, whichever is greater, as provided.
This bill would instead require nonveteran spouses to pay the same fees and charges as paid by the veteran members of the home, as determined by the department and subject to the same prohibitions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1012.3 of the Military and Veterans Code
2 is amended to read:
begin delete(a)end deletebegin delete end deleteMembers of thebegin delete homeend deletebegin insert home, including members
4who are nonveteran spouses,end insert shall pay fees and charges as
5determined by the department, except that the total of the individual
6member’s fees and charges for any fiscal year shall not be greater
7than as set forth in the following schedule:
8(1)
end delete
9begin insert(a)end insert Forty-seven and one-half percent of the member’s annual
10income for domiciliary care.
11(2)
end delete
12begin insert(b)end insert Fifty-five percent of the member’s annual income for
13residential care for the elderly or assisted living.
14(3)
end delete
15begin insert(c)end insert Sixty-five percent of the member’s annual income for
16intermediate care.
17(4)
end delete
18begin insert(d)end insert Seventy percent of the member’s annual income for skilled
19nursing care.
20(b) Nonveteran spouses who become members of the home on
21or after July 1, 2009, shall pay fees and charges based on the level
22of care, as described in subdivision (a), or an amount equal to the
23annual amount of federal per diem received for a veteran member
24in domiciliary care, whichever is greater. If the nonveteran
25member’s income is less than the annual amount of federal per
26diem for a veteran member in domiciliary care, the nonveteran
27member shall pay a maximum of 90 percent of his or her annual
28income.
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