Seniors' Legislation Seniors' LegislationAppropriates $40 million for the 2000-2001 budget year for the Senior Citizens and Disabled Homeowner and Renter Tax Assistance Program for unfunded costs.
Prohibits any person from providing services under the In-Home Supportive Services Program or personal care services under the Medi-Cal program unless he/she has submitted a request for a criminal history clearance and has had his/her fingerprints taken.
Appropriates $1.4 million from the General Fund to the State Department of Aging for allocation under the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). Stipulates that each of the 42 existing RSVP projects would receive an equal share of these funds.
Makes permanent the increases in Senior Citizens and Disabled Homeowner and Renter Tax Assistance Program.
Authorizes counties to establish interagency elder death review teams to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious elder deaths and to foster communication between coroners, law enforcement and other agencies.
Provides an annual standardized rate adjustment for the Multipurpose Senior Service Program, commensurate to the Consumer Price Index.
Authorizes the California Science Center to establish the Rosa Parks Learning Center in Exposition Park in the City of Los Angeles. The learning center will include, among other things, a computer literacy program where preteenagers and teenagers furnish mentoring services to seniors and an afterschool program for the mentoring of youth.
Establishes, within the State Department of Aging, the Senior Wellness Program that includes the Stay Well Program and the Program for Injury Prevention in the Home Environment.
Requires state certifications and grants protections to developments and individuals who discriminate on the basis of age and familial status with respect to developments claiming to be Senior Citizen Housing Developments.
Provides statutory authority to the State Department of Aging to implement adult day care service program grants in underserved areas of the state.
Establishes a uniform medical protocol for the examination of victims of domestic violence and elder abuse.
Establishes the Elderly and Disabled Persons' Revolving Home Improvement Loan Program to provide grants to local public agencies and nonprofit corporations for the purpose of providing home improvement loans to specified elderly and disabled persons.
Requires the State Health and Human Services Agency to develop a strategic plan for improving access to mental health services by persons with Alzheimer's disease or related disorders. Appropriates $85,000 from the General Fund to the agency, without regard to fiscal year, for purposes of the bill.
Continues for 2001 and thereafter the 150% increase in property tax relief for senior and disabled homeowners and renters.
Requires the State Health and Human Services Agency to implement a prescription drug program providing specified prescription drug coverage for Medicare-eligible persons with chronic illnesses.
Requires the State Department of Mental Health to employ a full-time physician with geriatric experience to oversee, monitor, and provide advice to participating counties regarding services for older adults under the Adult and Older Adults Mental Health System of Care Act.
Establishes the California Elder Corps to conduct an extensive study and design a master plan for involving California seniors in the corps to facilitate the contributions of older adults in California civic life, requires the State Health and Human Services Agency to contract for the development of a system of elder care navigators to provide information, advice, and basic planning to older adults on their care options, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop a model curriculum to provide education in financial preparations for lifelong healthy economics, requires the State Employment Development Department to publish a list of all private and public California companies that provide elder benefits to employees and their immediate families, and requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing boards of community college districts to require the study of gerontology or geriatrics in programs in the helping professions.
Establishes a long-term health care program for persons with a dual diagnoses of serious mental disorder and a cognitive disorder such as delirium, dementia, or amnestic disorder, and requires any nursing facility to receive a state supplement in addition to basic nursing home rates, if specified conditions are met.
Replaces the requirement that the check-off for the California Fund for Senior Citizens must meet the $250,000 minimum contribution test beginning in 2001 with the requirement that it must meet the test beginning in 2003. Also contains intent language that the Legislature provide support to the California Senior Legislature through an appropriation and that this check-off will be removed from the tax form when that occurs.
Requires the State Department of Aging to conduct a statewide survey and needs analysis to determine the geographic and structural needs for senior centers by December 31, 2002.
In computing adjusted gross income under the Personal Income Tax Law, allows a deduction for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2002, in an amount equal to the applicable percentage of the amount paid or incurred for the cost of long-term care insurance for the taxpayer and his or her spouse and dependents.
Requires that all unclaimed moneys escheated to the state from the estates of deceased persons be used for an existing state program to construct or rehabilitate multifamily housing for senior citizens.
Requires the State Department of Housing and Community Development to make available, upon appropriation, $10 million to the housing and redevelopment agency of a city with a population of more than two million in order to provide grants that may not exceed $25,000 to eligible individuals for rehabilitating housing units in order to meet current city building standards.
Includes criminal prosecuting attorneys' offices within the list of agencies that may receive reports or disclosure of reports regarding actual or suspected abuse of an elder or dependent adult. Adds criminal prosecuting attorneys' offices to the list of agencies exempted from civil or criminal liability for any report, unless a false report was knowingly made and to the list of those entities exempted from liability for providing access to a victim of abuse, and also to the list of those entities that may present a claim to the State Board of Control.
Increases the benefits available under the senior citizens and disabled property tax assistance program.
A tax relief budget trailer bill which, among others, increases the benefits paid under the Senior Homeowners' and Renters Assistance Program by 45 percent on a permanent basis.
Augments Item 9100-101-0001 of the Budget Act by $75 million, including $13.5 million for the Senior Citizens' Property Tax Assistance Program and $61.5 million for the Senior Citizens' Renters' Tax Assistance Program.
Authorizes a licensee of a long-term care health facility, in lieu of seeking to adjudicate the validity of a class "AA" or "A" citation in the municipal or superior court, to elect to submit the matter to binding arbitration as provided under the bill.
Authorizes a nonrefundable credit to senior citizens for their unreimbursed prescription drug costs.
Allows for subsequent arrest information for persons employed as in-home personal care to an aged or disabled adult and extends the sunset on the rural crime prevention act.
Encourages the State Department of Mental Health to provide a mental health care provider with training in geriatrics to assist and monitor county mental health programs serving older adults.
Creates a pilot program to assist low-income seniors in locating safe affordable housing.
Requires the State Department of Health Services to establish a centralized consumer response unit to respond to consumer inquiries and complaints in long-term health care facilities, and to assist consumers in resolving concerns.
Revises the standards for Adult Day Health Care centers providers and transfers certain responsibilities from the State Department of Aging to the State Department of Health Services.
Requires the State Department of Aging to establish a task force of specified numbers to study and make recommendations to the Legislature on issues relating to legal services for seniors.
Allows owners of mobilehomes that are subject to property tax to file a homeowners and renters assistance claim as either a homeowner or a renter.
Establishes a grant program in the Office of Criminal Justice Planning that enables counties to more effectively address the financial abuse or exploitation of elders and dependent adults, as specified.
Until January 1, 2008, allows a tax credit in an amount equal to 25 percent of the cost paid or incurred for prescription drugs by a senior citizen taxpayer whose income does not exceed certain limits.
Imposes the requirements of the Senior Insurance Law on direct-marketed health insurance products, and also extends by 90 days the July 1, 2001 deadline for compliance with long-term care insurance law.
Requires the State Franchise Tax Board to conduct a study of senior tax filing forms.
Requires the Secretary of the State Health and Human Services Agency to establish and chair a Long-Term Care Financing Task Force and requires the task force to report to the Legislature alternative methods to finance long-term care.
Requires residential care facilities for the elderly to provide training in recognizing and reporting elder and dependent adult abuse.
Designates May 2001, as Elder Abuse Prevention Month.
Proclaims the week of September 9 through September 15, 2001, as Assisted Living Week in California and encourages all citizens to visit friends and loved ones who reside in residential care facilities for elderly and disabled individuals, and also to learn more about assisted living services and how vital these services are to residents.
Index (in Bill Order)| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
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SB 14 |
Peace-D Budget Acts of 1999 and 2000: fiscal affairs |
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SB 70 |
Escutia-D In-home care workers for the elderly |
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SB 186 |
Speier-D Retired and Senior Volunteer Program |
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SB 218* |
Dunn-D Senior citizens' tax assistance |
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SB 333 |
Escutia-D Elder death review teams |
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SB 337 |
Ortiz-D Multipurpose senior services program benefits |
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SB 358 |
Murray-D The Rosa Parks Learning Center |
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SB 370 |
Ortiz-D Seniors: Wellness and injury prevention programs |
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SB 382 |
Haynes-R Senior housing: discrimination |
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SB 427 |
Perata-D Adult day care funding |
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SB 502 |
Ortiz-D Elder abuse |
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SB 533 |
Margett-R Programs for the elderly and disabled |
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SB 639 |
Ortiz-D Alzheimer's disease and related disorders |
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SB 854* |
Brulte-R Franchise and income tax laws: seniors' tax assistance |
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SB 922 |
Soto-D Prescription drugs: manufacturer rebate |
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SB 936 |
Margett-R Mental health: adults and older adults |
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SB 953 |
Vasconcellos-D Aging |
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SB 1062 |
Chesbro-D Long-term care: dual diagnoses program |
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SB 1082 |
Vasconcellos-D Income taxes: designations: senior citizens |
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AB 20 |
Koretz-D Senior centers |
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AB 64* |
Alquist-D Income taxes: deduction: long-term care insurance |
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AB 72 |
Bates-R Escheated funds: portable housing: elderly persons |
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AB 114 |
Washington-D Senior housing rehabilitation |
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AB 191 |
Bates-R Elder and dependent abuse |
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AB 385 |
Strickland-R Seniors' tax assistance: full value |
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AB 426* |
Cardoza-D Taxation |
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AB 440* |
Cardoza-D Budget augmentations |
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AB 505 |
Robert Pacheco-R Long-term health care facilities: citations and penalties |
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AB 513* |
Strickland-R Income taxes: credit: drugs |
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AB 530 |
Reyes-D Crime prevention |
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AB 590 |
Vargas-D Mental health: adults and older adults |
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AB 628 |
Oropeza-D Senior housing |
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AB 828 |
Cohn-D Long-term care facilities |
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AB 829 |
Cohn-D Health care |
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AB 830 |
Cohn-D Senior legal services |
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AB 1036 |
Pescetti-R Seniors' tax assistance: mobilehomes |
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AB 1111 |
Simitian-D Adult abuse: financial abuse specialist teams |
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AB 1166* |
Bill Campbell-R Income taxes: credit: drugs |
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AB 1178 |
Calderon-D Insurance |
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AB 1370* |
Wiggins-D Tax forms: taxpayers 65 or older: study |
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AB 1451 |
Liu-D Long-term care insurance |
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AB 1690 |
Assembly Human Services Committee Elder and dependent abuse reporting: training |
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ACR 70 |
Zettel-R Elder Abuse Prevention Month |
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ACR 77 |
Cohn-D Assisted living |
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