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2012 Summary of Key Legislation
Highlighted items are most recent updates.
AB 889 (Ammiano) – would specially regulate the wages, hours, and working conditions of domestic work employees, as defined. Specifically, this bill would, among other things, provide a private right of action for a domestic work employee when those regulations are violated by his or her employer; provide an overtime compensation rate for domestic work employees; and require paid vacation for domestic work employees.
UDW Position – Watch
Status – Held in Senate Appropriations
AB 1436 (Feuer) – would establish conditional voter registration, using an affidavit of registration, whereby a person would be permitted to register to vote after the 15th day prior to an election or on election day, and cast a provisional ballot to be counted if the conditional voter registration is deemed effective.
UDW Position – Support
Status – Assembly Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
AB 1714 (Halderman) – would add the felony offenses of forgery, embezzlement, extortion, and identity theft to the list of criminal convictions that would preclude an applicant from providing supporting services in the IHSS program.
UDW Position – Oppose
Status – Senate Rules for referral
AB 1841 (Silva) – would delete the authority of a recipient to submit a waiver for the purpose of employing a person who has been convicted of one of the specific crimes as the recipients IHSS provider.
UDW Position – Oppose
Status – Failed passage in Assembly Human Services Committee – 4/10/12
AB 2074 (Bradford) – would require the department to develop a training program, as specified, to train IHSS providers on the utilization of tele-health in home-based care.
UDW Position – Watch
Status – Dead
AB 2206 (Atkins) – would require the California Workforce Investment Board and the Health Workforce Development Council to help expand California’s health workforce in order to provide access to quality health care for all Californians.
UDW Position – Watch
Status – Senate Rules for referral
AB 2392 (John A. Perez) – would require the department to seek federal funding to establish a program to provide and reimburse for medical interpretation services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are limited English proficient (LEP), as prescribed.
UDW Position – Watch
Status – Assembly Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
AB 2538 (John A. Perez) – current law prohibits an applicant from providing supportive services for 10 years following a conviction for, or incarceration following a conviction for, specified felony offenses. This bill would instead require the department to request a copy of the applicant’s criminal offender record information search response from the applicable county welfare department or public authority.
UDW Position – Sponsor
Status – Senate Rules for referral
SB 411 (Price) – would enact the Home Care Services Act of 2011, which would provide for the licensure and regulation of home care organizations, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health and the certification of home care aides. The bill would exclude specified entities from the definition of a home care organization.
UDW Position – Support
Status – Assembly Inactive File
SB 641 (Calderon) – would establish conditional voter registration, using an affidavit of registration, whereby a person would be permitted to register to vote after the 15th day prior to an election or on election day, and cast a provisional ballot to be counted if the conditional voter registration is deemed effective.
UDW Position – Support
Status – Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 1438 (Alquist) – would require the Insurance Commissioner to conduct a study that assesses the feasibility of establishing a voluntary insurance program for purchasing long-term care services and supports.
UDW Position – Support
Status – Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File.
SB 1503 (Steinberg) – would state that it is the intent of the legislature to enact legislation that would integrate the IHSS program with other long-term care services, including nursing facility care and community-based services, to increase timely access to adequate long-term care services and enhance care coordination across long-term care settings.
UDW Position – Sponsor
Status – Senate Third Reading - Item #40
The Legislation that Formed our Present IHSS System
– AB 1682 –
Assembly Bill 1682 (Honda, Villaraigosa, Shelley, Peace, Burton ) 1999 – required each county to establish an “IHSS Employer of Record” (resulting in the formation of the IHSS “Public Authorities” or PA’s) and guaranteeing IHSS home care workers in the State of California the right to collective bargaining. This bill also established that Advisory Committees/Boards be formed in each county, with consumer rights to majority representation and the right of consumers to train their own home care provider.
UDW sponsored and won enactment for this bill.
