State Sen. Noreen Evans (D-2nd District)

UDW Co-Sponsored Bill Passes State Senate

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SB 930, introduced by State Sen. Noreen Evans (D-2nd District), which would remove the fingerprinting requirements for IHSS recipients and providers, has passed the Senate on a 23-15 vote and will be sent to Gov. Brown for signature. He has 30 days to act on the bill.

The fingerprinting requirements, estimated to cost the state nearly $10 million a year, were pushed through the Legislature in late 2009 by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as part of his campaign against what he alleged was “massive” fraud in IHSS. However, since providers and clients themselves—not fingerprinting technicians—must put their fingerprints on the IHSS timesheets, these fingerprints cannot be legally used to match against original, confirmed fingerprints.

The UDW cosponsored bill would also remove prohibitions against the use of a post office box by an IHSS provider.