In January 2021, Governor Newsom launched California’s Grasp Plan for Growing old (MPA), which lays out a ten-year plan to organize the state for an growing old and altering inhabitants. The MPA set 5 main objectives: Housing for All Ages and Levels; Well being Reimagined; Inclusion & Fairness, Not Isolation; Caregiving that Works; and Affording Growing old.
5 years into the implementation of the MPA, the Legislature and Administration proceed to have the chance to work 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 number of the payments which were launched within the 2025 legislative session that may 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 funds proposals for consideration that increase the Governor’s preliminary funds proposals.
Justice in Growing old compiled this abstract of 2025 legislative payments and funds requests. Sponsors are listed when identified. Questions and additions, together with to sponsors, could be referred to Yasmin Peled at ypeled@justiceinaging.org. Inclusion on this checklist doesn’t point out endorsement by Justice in Growing old.
Objective 1: Housing for All Ages and Levels
Payments:
- AB 474 (Ward): Residence Sharing
- LeadingAge California
- This invoice goals to extend participation in nonprofit residence sharing packages, notably amongst older adults.
- AB 508 (Aguiar-Curry): Residential Care Facility for the Aged Staffing Disclosure
- California Advocates for Nursing Residence Reform
- This invoice would require RCFEs to calculate their day by day staffing ranges, already an trade greatest follow, and share them with residents, potential residents, and their households to allow them to higher perceive how a lot care to count on, evaluate amenities, and make higher decisions about their long-term care choices.
- AB 804 (Wicks and Stefani): Medi-Cal Housing Assist Providers
- Company for Supportive Housing, Housing California, Western Heart on Legislation and Poverty
- This invoice would require California to hunt federal approval for a Medi-Cal profit that may fund housing assist companies as an entitlement, serving to the state scale up the variety of folks receiving companies and obtain federal funding towards the prices of the companies.
- AB 1068 (Bains): Lengthy-Time period Care Emergency Response System
- This invoice is meant create a statewide complete long-term care emergency response system that strengthens California’s emergency preparedness system and protects the state’s rising older grownup inhabitants.
- SB 434 (Wahab): Residential Care Facility for the Aged Eviction Protections
- California Advocates for Nursing Residence Reform
- This invoice would require 60 days’ discover of an RCFE eviction if the resident has lived there for greater than a 12 months and 90 days’ discover if they’ve lived there for 2 years or extra, and require RCFEs to offer reasonable discharge planning for residents dealing with eviction, and allow fines on amenities that dump their residents with out due course of.
Price range Requests:
- The California Fee on Growing old requests $150 million in one-time Basic Fund assist for the Housing and Incapacity Advocacy Program (HDAP) to take care of essential housing and advantages advocacy companies for older adults and people with disabilities experiencing or susceptible to homelessness. The request seeks to maintain present service ranges and forestall drastic reductions, and protect essential housing and advantages advocacy infrastructure constructed by way of prior investments.
- The California Fee on Growing old requests $100 million in one-time Basic Fund assist for the Group Care Enlargement (CCE) Program to strengthen the state’s long-term care infrastructure and increase housing and supportive companies choices.
- The Alameda Senior Providers Coalition requests $88.8 million in ongoing funding for the Residence Protected program, to make sure that counties can proceed to supply the broad vary of companies that forestall homelessness for people concerned in or within the consumption course of for Grownup Protecting Providers (APS).
Objective 2: Well being Reimagined
Payments:
- AB 315 (Bonta): Medi-Cal Residence and Group Primarily based Options Waiver
- Incapacity Rights California, Cardea Well being, East Bay Improvements
- This invoice would require the Division of Well being Care Providers to increase capability within the Medi-Cal Residence and Group-Primarily based Options (HCBA) waiver and to undergo the Legislature a examine of charges and rate-setting methodologies for HCBA waiver companies.
- AB 517 (Krell): Medi-Cal Advanced Rehabilitation Know-how Wheelchairs
- California Basis for Unbiased Residing Facilities
- Streamlines the method for service and repairs for advanced rehabilitation expertise (CRT)-powered wheelchairs below California’s Medi-Cal program. Prohibits the California Division of Well being Care Providers from requiring prior authorization for the restore of CRT-powered wheelchairs if the price doesn’t exceed $1,250 and removes the necessity for a person prescription or medical necessity documentation for accredited CRT-powered wheelchair repairs.
- AB 1161 (Harabedian): Public Advantages Safety for Catastrophe Survivors
- Western Heart on Legislation and Poverty
- This invoice would guarantee low-income Californians impacted by disasters stay eligible for public profit packages (together with CalWORKs, CalFresh, CAPI, IHSS, and Medi-Cal) for a minimum of 90 days as a substitute of being mechanically terminated if they don’t submit well timed renewal data.
- SB 250 (Ochoa Bogh): Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan Expert Nursing Facility Listing
- California Advocates for Nursing Residence Reform
- This invoice provides nursing properties to an already present Managed Care Supplier Listing administered by the Division of Well being Care Providers (DHCS), empowering Medi-Cal beneficiaries to make knowledgeable decisions when searching for a nursing residence or a Managed Care Plan.
- SB 508 (Valladares): Out of State Physicians and Surgeons Telehealth
- California Senior Legislature
- This invoice expands life threatening illness requirement of an eligible affected person to incorporate an individual who has been identified with any stage of most cancers and supplies that sufferers will not be topic to the scientific trial requirement.
- SB 530 (Richardson): Defending Medi-Cal Supplier Entry
- Nationwide Well being Legislation Program, Western Heart on Legislation and Poverty
- This invoice would strengthen entry to Medi-Cal suppliers by completely extending Medi-Cal time and distance requirements; extending compliance to delegated entities, together with sub-plans or supplier teams; and enhancing the choice entry requirements requirement by way of elevated transparency and information reporting.
Price range Requests:
- Justice in Growing old and Western Heart on Legislation and Poverty request $33 million in Basic Fund in FY 2025-26 and $80 million ongoing Basic Fund to implement the reform accredited within the FY 2022-23 funds to extend the ‘upkeep want revenue degree’ of the Medi-Cal Share of Value program to 138% of the Federal Poverty Stage (FPL). The present Medi-Cal Share of Value program forces older adults and other people with disabilities to reside on $600 per 30 days with a view to entry Medi-Cal companies, trapping them in deep poverty.
- The Latino Coalition for a Wholesome California, The Kids’s Partnership, and Western Heart on Legislation and Poverty request $1.1 billion to completely lengthen key unwinding flexibilities to make sure low-income Californians preserve entry to Medi-Cal with out gaps in protection.
Objective 3: Inclusion & Fairness, Not Isolation
Payments:
- AB 561 (Quirk Silva): Various Service of Elder Abuse Restraining Orders
- Justice in Growing old, Wager Tzedek Authorized Providers, Elder Legislation & Advocacy, San Diego Metropolis Legal professional, Civil Prosecutors Coalition.
- This invoice would replace the elder abuse restraining order statute to permit for various service of those restraining orders, in addition to to permit for distant look at hearings. This variation would mirror the protections that victims of home violence have once they search restraining orders.
- AB 1069 (Bains): Space Companies on Growing old Catastrophe Preparedness
- California Affiliation of Space Companies on Growing old
- This invoice would be sure that Space Companies on Growing old and Growing old and Incapacity Useful resource Connection packages have entry to shelters in order that older adults and other people with disabilities can both proceed to obtain companies or entry wanted companies.
- SB 239 (Arreguin): Open Conferences Teleconferencing
- California Senior Legislature
- This invoice authorizes a subsidiary physique to make use of various teleconferencing provisions and would impose necessities for discover, agenda and public participation.
- SB 470 (Laird): Public Participation and Incapacity Entry on State Boards and Commissions
- California Fee on Growing old
- This invoice seeks to completely modernize the Bagley-Keene Act by eradicating the sundown provision from his earlier laws, SB 544(2023). SB 470 requires a quorum at a single location, mandates that distant officers hold their cameras on, and preserves distant testimony choices, guaranteeing boards and commissions stay open and accessible whereas sustaining transparency in decision-making.
Price range Requests:
- The California Affiliation of Space Companies on Growing old and the California Basis for Unbiased Residing Facilities request an extra $15 million to assist at present rising and increase present operations of the Growing old and Incapacity Useful resource Connections (ADRCs).
- The California Lengthy-Time period Care Ombudsman Affiliation allocates $15.9 million of present CDPH reserves that at present fund native Lengthy-Time period Care Ombudsman Packages to allow these packages to satisfy present state and federal mandates statewide. Funding can be directed in direction of unannounced quarterly facility visits, resolving residents’ complaints, abuse and neglect investigations, volunteer coaching and administration, and different essential companies together with witnessing Superior Well being Care Directives (AHCDs) signed in long-term care as required by state legislation, supporting resident and household councils, and offering data, help, coaching, and referrals to facility employees, residents, and relations.
Objective 4: Caregiving That Works
Payments:
- AB 283 (Haney): IHSS Statewide Collective Bargaining
- SEIU California
- This invoice would transfer the whole lot of the IHSS workforce into one grasp collective bargaining settlement and cut price with the state moderately than the 58 separate counties.
- SB 412 (Limon): Coaching on Dementia for Residence Care Aides
- Alzheimer’s Affiliation
- This invoice would require that licensed residence care aides obtain coaching on caring for people with dementia.
- SB 590 (Durazo): Paid Household Depart for Household of Selection
- California Work and Household Coalition, AARP
- This invoice would increase the definition of “member of the family” and “household care go away” which can enable household caregivers to take paid household go away to care for people associated by blood or whose affiliation with the caregiver is the equal of a household relationship.
Objective 5: Affording Growing old
Price range Requests:
- The California Senior Legislature requests $500,000 in 2025-26 and $4 million ongoing to extend the non-public wants allowance from $35 to $50 per 30 days and requires that quantity to be elevated yearly as much as the quantity of any value of dwelling adjustment applied by the Social Safety Administration.
- The Californians for SSI Coalition requests $156 million to offer an ongoing cost-of-living improve for the State Supplementary Fee (SSP): This funds request would offer an ongoing annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for the SSP grant. A COLA for the state portion of the SSI/SSP profit would be sure that low-income older adults and people with disabilities in California can sustain with rising prices for primary wants like utilities, meals, medication, and hire.
- The Californians for SSI Coalition requests $20 million to revive an Emergency Grant Program for Older Adults & Folks with Disabilities: This funds request would applicable $20 million ongoing funding in 2025-2026 to revive an Emergency Grant program (WIC 12550) as a 5-year, time-limited program. This system would offer monetary help in a one-time lump sum to recipients of SSI, IHSS, or CAPI to assist older adults and other people with disabilities dealing with emergencies.
- The Californians for SSI Coalition requests $370 million to raise SSI/SSP grants to a minimum of the Federal Poverty Line: This funds request would offer a five-step improve over 5 years to deliver and hold the SSI/SSP grant at 100% of the Federal Poverty Stage (FPL) as a down fee to the Elder Financial Safety Index, which displays the true value of dwelling for SSI/SSP recipients.
