In January 2021, Governor Newsom launched California’s Grasp Plan for Ageing (MPA), which lays out a ten-year plan to organize the state for an getting older and altering inhabitants. The MPA set 5 main targets: Housing for All Ages and Levels; Well being Reimagined; Inclusion & Fairness, Not Isolation; Caregiving that Works; and Affording Ageing.
Regardless of the present unsure fiscal local weather, the Legislature and Administration proceed to have the chance to associate collectively to create a state the place older adults and other people with disabilities can age in place and reside with dignity. The checklist under highlights a few of the payments which have been launched in 2023-2024 legislative session that might straight have an effect on older adults and other people with disabilities and advance the MPA. Along with this 12 months’s legislative efforts, stakeholders have submitted further price range proposals for consideration that increase the Governor’s preliminary price range proposals.
Justice in Ageing compiled this abstract of 2023-24 legislative payments and price range requests. Sponsors are listed when identified. Questions and additions, together with to sponsors, might be referred to Yasmin Peled. Inclusion on this checklist doesn’t point out endorsement by Justice in Ageing.
BILLS:
AB 1993 (Kalra): Residential Care Amenities for the Aged
- California Fee on Ageing
- This invoice would amend the California Residential Care Amenities for the Aged (RCFE) Act to broaden the variety of people they serve by changing the six-bed cap with a “eight or fewer cap” whereas nonetheless being thought of for residential use within the California code.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Senate Appropriations
SB 37 (Caballero): Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Housing Stability Act
- Justice in Ageing, Company for Supportive Housing, LeadingAge California, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, United Approach of Larger LA
- This invoice would create rental stabilization subsidies that might allow hundreds of older adults and other people with disabilities yearly to entry or preserve their housing. The subsidies can be made accessible to severely low-income Californians who’re experiencing homelessness or at imminent threat of homelessness.
- » STATUS: Lively Invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
SB 1406 (Allen): RCFE Fee Will increase
- California Advocates for Nursing House Reform
- This invoice clarifies that residents of RCFEs have the suitable to request, refuse, or terminate companies. Residents are sometimes compelled to pay add-on prices for companies they don’t want and are led to consider they could not refuse.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
BUDGET REQUESTS:
Justice in Ageing, Company for Supportive Housing, LeadingAge California, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, United Approach of Larger LA request one-time funds of $25 million that might fund a pilot housing stabilization program for older adults and individuals with disabilities who’re at imminent threat of, or at the moment experiencing, homelessness. The California Division of Housing and Group Improvement (HCD) will oversee aggressive grants to native housing, getting older, and incapacity companies. Grantees will administer rental subsidies to forestall homelessness for individuals who are at highest threat, and provide housing stability to these most vulnerable to homelessness, and permit at the moment unhoused people to acquire housing within the personal market.
» STATUS: Not included within the 2024-25 State Price range
BILLS:
AB 486 (Kalra): Nursing House Citations: Attraction Course of
- Incapacity Rights California
- This invoice would offer a extra constant framework for the appeals course of throughout regulatory citations for long-term care amenities in California. This would cut back the burden on our superior court docket system and save judicial assets and taxpayer cash. Moreover, it could streamline and enhance a course of that’s designed to carry negligent amenities (i.e., nursing houses) accountable.
- » STATUS: Held in Senate Judiciary Committee
AB 2685 (Ortega): Case Administration Companies
- Senior Companies Coalition of Alameda County
- This invoice would create a pilot program, administered by California Division of Ageing (CDA), to extend capability of the Older Individuals Act funded Case Administration applications in a number of websites all through the state, and seize qualitative and quantitative information to measure the impression of case administration on resolving the unmet social wants and enhancing well being outcomes for low-income older adults.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense in Meeting Appropriations
AB 2689 (Bains): Alzheimer’s Illness
- Alzheimer’s Affiliation
- This invoice extends till January 1, 2030, the availability that permits taxpayers to designate on their private earnings tax return {that a} specified quantity be contributed to the California Alzheimer’s Illness and Associated Dementia Analysis Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund.
- » STATUS: Chaptered, signed by Governor Newsom
AB 2753 (Ortega): Sturdy Medical Gear and Companies
- Western Middle on Regulation and Poverty, Nationwide Well being Regulation Program
- This invoice would make clear that sturdy medical gear is a lined important well being profit in California-regulated well being plans and insurance policies when prescribed by a health care provider for rehabilitative or habilitative functions. The invoice would additionally take away limitations resembling annual caps on sturdy medical gear protection.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense in Meeting Appropriations
AB 2956 (Boerner): Defending Medi-Cal Protection for Californians
- Western Middle on Regulation and Poverty, The Kids’s Partnership, Latino Coalition for a Well being California
- This invoice would permit individuals to maintain their Medi-Cal protection for a full 12 months, no matter adjustments of their earnings and would direct California to hunt federal approval, when crucial, to make everlasting the federal Medi-Cal flexibilities to scale back and treatment procedural terminations, simplify earnings verification necessities, enhance automated Medi-Cal renewals, and enhance program outreach and customer support.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense in Meeting Appropriations
SB 980 (Wahab): Medi-Cal Dental Crowns and Implants
- California Alliance for Retired Individuals
- This invoice expands Medi-Cal to incorporate dental implants and crowns as a lined profit.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
SB 1236 (Blakespear): Medicare Complement Protection
- California Alliance for Retired Individuals
- This invoice will set up a proper to assured concern for all Medicare sufferers in search of Medigap supplemental protection and establishes an annual open enrollment interval.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense in Senate Appropriations
SB 1354 (Wahab): Medi-Cal Discrimination
- California Advocates for Nursing House Reform, Workplace of the State Lengthy Time period Care Ombudsman
- This invoice codifies the settlement signed by long run care amenities collaborating within the Medi-Cal program from discriminating in opposition to Medi-Cal beneficiaries in any method, together with, however not restricted to, admission practices and discharge makes an attempt.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
BUDGET REQUESTS:
California Lengthy Time period Care Ombudsman Affiliation requests for $9.25 million in further annual funding from 2 particular funds administered by California Division of Public Well being that already fund Lengthy-Time period Care (LTC) Ombudsman Packages to rent 50-80 further paid employees and interact 400-500 further volunteers to fulfill current state and federal program mandates: i.e., quarterly unannounced visits to SNFs and RCFEs; resolving complaints and investigating abuse and neglect reviews in LTC amenities; witnessing all Superior Well being Care Directives signed in LTC amenities; supporting resident and household councils; and, offering info, help, and coaching to residents, facility employees, and households.
» STATUS: $6.25 million funding included within the 2024-25 State Price range
BILLS:
AB 1911 (Gomez Reyes): Residential Care Amenities for the Aged (RCFE) Grievance Investigation Reforms
- California Advocates for Nursing House Reform
- This invoice would make the RCFE criticism course of extra well timed and environment friendly by imposing investigation deadlines for RCFE complaints and requiring written discover to the complainant when a criticism is obtained and assigned for investigation. This could align the RCFE criticism course of with the nursing residence criticism course of.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Senate Appropriations
AB 2075 (Alvarez): Designated Assist Individual Entry throughout Public Well being Emergency
- California Advocates for Nursing House Reform, Workplace of the State Lengthy Time period Care Ombudsman
- This invoice ensures long run care facility resident entry to designated assist individuals and different crucial service suppliers throughout public well being emergencies.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Senate Appropriations
AB 2207 (Gomez Reyes): State Boards and Commissions
- California Fee on Ageing
- This invoice would broaden the membership of the Alzheimer’s Illness and Associated Issues Advisory Committee, the CA Well being Workforce Training and Coaching Council, the CA Workforce Improvement Board, the CA Behavioral Well being Planning Council, the Psychological Well being Companies Oversight and Accountability Fee, and the Interagency Council on Homelessness to incorporate the Govt Director of the CCoA or their designee, and/or the Director of the CDA.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Senate Appropriations
AB 2620 (Bains): California Fee on Ageing
- California Fee on Ageing
- This invoice seeks to modernize the Older Californians Act statue regarding the Fee on Ageing. This invoice revises the duties of the Fee, amongst different issues, to require advisory participation in issues of initiatives, resolutions and govt orders for applications and companies affecting older adults, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, on Senate flooring
AB 2636 (Bains): Older Californians Act
- California Affiliation of Space Companies on Ageing
- This invoice would recast and revise numerous provisions of the Older Californians Act, together with updating findings and declarations regarding statistics and problems with concern to the older grownup inhabitants, and changing references all through the act from “senior,” and comparable terminology to “older grownup.”
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Senate Appropriations
AB 2680 (Aguiar Curry): Alzheimer’s Illness
- Alzheimer’s Affiliation
- This invoice would replace the state’s Alzheimer’s and Associated Issues Advisory Committee so as to add new members, conform time period lengths, take away stigmatizing language, and uplift variety.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, on Senate flooring
SB 639 (Limon): Alzheimer’s Illness
- Alzheimer’s Affiliation
- This invoice would replace the state Alzheimer’s Illness Facilities to incorporate Dementia Care Conscious, which can enhance state methods that assist individuals obtain a well timed and correct prognosis.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
SB 1249 (Roth): Older Californians Act
- California Fee on Ageing
- This invoice seeks to modernize the Older Californians Act in response to the stakeholder engagement ensuing within the creation of the California 2030 report.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, on Meeting Flooring
BILLS
AB 518 (Wicks): Paid Household Depart
- This invoice would broaden the definition of “member of the family” and “household care depart” which can permit household caregivers to take paid household depart to care for people associated by blood or whose affiliation with the caregiver is the equal of a household relationship.
- » STATUS: Inactive
AB 1006 (McKinnor): Ageing and Incapacity Useful resource Connection program: No Flawed Door System
- SEIU California
- This invoice would require the California Division of Ageing to ascertain a statewide respite referral registry to match Medi-Cal customers with vetted, culturally competent, respite suppliers, beneath the Ageing and Incapacity Useful resource Connection No Flawed Door System.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense, Senate Appropriations
AB 2123 (Papan): Paid Household Depart
- Authorized Support at Work
- Permits employees to entry Paid Household Depart with out having to make use of accrued trip time first.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, on Senate flooring
AB 3079 (Ting): In-House Supportive Companies (IHSS)
- Metropolis and County of San Francisco
- This invoice would permit an IHSS care recipient to decide on an undocumented relative as their supplier.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense, Meeting Appropriations
SB 1090 (Durazo): Paid Household Depart
- Authorized Support at Work
- This invoice would permit California employees to use for Paid Household Depart and State Incapacity Insurance coverage advantages as much as 30 days earlier than they’re on depart. Consequently, employees will be capable to get affirmation of their eligibility and profit quantity earlier than beginning their depart, and obtain advantages sooner. At present, California employees should wait till they’re already on depart to use.
- » STATUS: Lively invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
SB 1434 (Durazo): Unemployment Insurance coverage
- Middle for Staff’ Rights
- This invoice would enhance the weekly profit quantity for unemployment, and enhance employer funds to the Unemployment Insurance coverage Fund. Household Caregivers could also be eligible for unemployment if their work is unable to make requested lodging for caregiving they usually need to give up their job.
- » STATUS: Held in Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee
BILLS:
AB 2356 (Wallis): Private Wants Allowance
- California Senior Legislature
- This invoice would enhance the month-to-month upkeep quantity for private and incidental wants from $35 to $50, and would require that the quantity be elevated yearly.
- » STATUS: Held on suspense in Meeting Appropriations
SB 1254 (Becker): CalFresh: Enrollment of Incarcerated People
- Authorized Companies for Prisoners with Kids—All of Us or None, Nourish California
- This invoice would permit and help incarcerated individuals in making use of for CalFresh advantages earlier than their launch to higher put together them for reentry.
- » STATUS: Lively Invoice, in Meeting Appropriations
BUDGET REQUESTS:
Californians for SSI Coalition requests crucial investments to make sure that older adults and other people with disabilities with Supplemental Safety Revenue (SSI) don’t wrestle with the poisonous stress of poverty and have the financial safety to reside in secure environments.
- Acceptable a three-step enhance to convey the SSI/SSP grants to 100% of the federal poverty stage over three years and supply an ongoing Value of Residing Adjustment. ($282.7 million in 2024-25, then rising to $340.9 million in 2026-27, to extend the SSI/SSP grants to 100% of the federal poverty stage)
- Revive and refund the Particular Circumstances Program as a 5 12 months, time-limited program. ($10 million for 5 years)
» STATUS: Standing: Not included within the 2024-25 State Price range
