Bill Text: CA SB142 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In-home supportive services: provider timesheets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-07-06 - Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB142 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB142-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 142	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Maldonado

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1501 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 142, as introduced, Maldonado. Community care facilities.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
community care facilities, as defined, by the State Department of
Social Services.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes 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 1501 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1501.  (a)  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there
is an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive
statewide service system of quality community care for mentally ill,
developmentally and physically disabled, and children and adults who
require care or services by a facility or organization issued a
license or special permit pursuant to this chapter.
   (b)  Therefore, the Legislature declares it is the intent of the
state to develop policies and programs designed to  : (1)
insure   do all of the following: 
    (1)     Ensure  a level of care and
services in the community  which   that  is
equal to or better than that provided by the state hospitals
 ; (2) assure  . 
    (2)     Ensure  that all people who
require them are provided with the appropriate range of social
rehabilitative, habilitative and treatment services, including
residential and nonresidential programs tailored to their needs
 ; (3) protect   . 
    (3)     Protect  the legal and human
rights of a person in or receiving services from a community care
facility  ; (4) insure   . 
    (4)    Ensure  continuity of care
between the medical-health elements and the supportive
care-rehabilitation elements of California's health systems 
; (5) insure   . 
    (5)     Ensure  that facilities
providing community care are adequate, safe  ,  and sanitary
 ; (6) assure   . 
    (6)     Ensure  that rehabilitative
and treatment services are provided at a reasonable cost  ;
(7) assure that   . 
    (7)     Ensure that  state payments
for community care services are based on a flexible rate schedule
varying according to type and cost of care and services provided
 ; (8) encourage   . 
    (8)     Encourage  the utilization of
personnel from state hospitals and the development of training
programs to improve the quality of staff in community care facilities
 ; and (9)   . 
    (9)     Ensure  the quality of
community care facilities by evaluating the care and services
provided and furnishing incentives to upgrade their quality.