Community Based Services and Supports
CDCAN Report #052-2010: In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Update on Bills, Hearings, Department Notices and Meetings - New Draft All County Letter on IHSS Provider Enrollment Q and A
Thu, 2010-03-11 14:18 — chrisIn-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Update
- · IHSS Teleconference by Dept of Social Services on Integrity and Fraud Program March 17
- · New Draft “All County Letter” On IHSS Provider Enrollment Questions
- · Update On Several IHSS Related Bills Including Hearing Dates
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/11/2010 11:40 AM (Pacific Time)] - Several budget and legislative hearings, agency or department meetings are scheduled next week and in the weeks that follow that directly impact In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), the program that serves over 460,000 children and adults with disabilities, the blind, mental health needs and seniors.
While the state budget process ramps up again, hearings on bills – several dealing with In-Home Supportive Services – have been scheduled, as the legislative bill process also moves forward, with critical deadlines approaching in late April and May.
CDCAN Report #051-2010: Assembly & State Senate Budget Subcommittee Schedule - Hearings on Governor's Proposed 2010-2011 Budget Gets Under Way Beginning Next Week - Olmstead Advisory Committee Meeting March 18th
Wed, 2010-03-10 12:06 — chrisAssembly and State Senate Budget Subcommittee Schedule on Governor’s 2010-2011 Budget
IHSS Teleconference by Dept of Social Services on Integrity and Fraud Program March 17th – CDCAN Townhall Telemeeting on Proposed Lanterman DC Closure March 17th - Olmstead Advisory Committee Meeting March 18th – Special Assembly Budget Subcommittee Hearing on Impact of Health and Human Services Proposed & Enacted Cuts March 24th
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/10/2010 07:40 AM (Pacific Time)] - The next phase of the long seemingly unending State budget process goes back into full swing next week, with Assembly and State Senate budget subcommittee hearings scheduled through early May to hear the Governor’s non-special session items contained in his proposed 2010-2011 State Budget. The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services released late yesterday a schedule of subcommittee hearings (specific Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing on Medi-Cal and other budget issues proposed by the Governor under the Department of Health Care Services have not yet been scheduled publicly)
Hearings and certain related legislative and state agency meeting – including an important stakeholder teleconference on In-Home Supportive Services by the Department of Social Services (scheduled for March 17th) and the California Health and Human Services Agency Olmstead Advisory Committee public meeting set for March 18th (that can also be accessed by toll free line), and a March 17th CDCAN Townhall Telemeeting on the proposed closure of Lanterman Developmental Center featuring the director and other senior officials from the Department of Developmental Services.
CDCAN Report #050-2010: Governor Signs Several Special Session Budget Bills Including Continuing 3% Regional Center Reductions Into 2010-2011 - 4 Other Bills Including Two Critical Transit Bills Set to Governor - Governor Vetoes 1 Bill
Tue, 2010-03-09 19:46 — chrisGovernor Vetoes $2.2 Billion Special Session Budget Solutions Bill – But Signs Several Others Including Continuing Regional Center 3% Cuts
Advocates Worry About Fate of Two Transportation Funding Special Session Budget Bills Now On Governor’s Desk
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/09/2010 05:50 PM (Pacific Time)] - In what is likely to be a forerunner in what is to come in the battle to close the projected nearly $20 billion budget deficit, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed on Monday ABx8 2 [the “x8” stands for the 8th special or extraordinary session of the Legislature it has held since the start of the 2009-2010 Legislative session] that legislative Democrats contend would have reduced State general fund spending in the proposed 2010-2011 State Budget by $2.2 billion.
The bill largely would have delayed spending on certain projects and programs, including delaying the implementation of the Conservatorship and Guardianship Reform Act of 2006 and implementing an anti-fraud initiative in the Department of Health Care Services focused on pharmacy, transportation, medical equipment and physician services that was projected to save $28.3 million in State general funds. No other health and human service related programs were impacted in that or any other special session budget bill – though cuts to regional centers were made in a separate bill that the Governor did sign.
CDCAN Report #048-2010: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Ruling Blocking Cut to State IHSS Worker Wages - Upholds Lower District Court Order from Last June
Wed, 2010-03-03 13:28 — chrisBREAKING NEWS:
US 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS RULES AGAINST SCHWARZENEGGER ADMINISTRATION ON IHSS WORKER WAGE LAWSUIT
UPHOLDS LOWER FEDERAL COURT’S INJUNCTION THAT BLOCKED REDUCTION OF STATE PARTICIPATION OF IHSS WAGE
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/03/2010 11:40 AM (Pacific Time)] - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today issued a decision that ruled against the Schwarzenegger Adminstration and upheld Federal District Court Judge Claudia Wilken’s injunction that has blocked – since June 2009 – the reduction in the State’s participation toward In-Home Supportive Services worker wages. The 9th Circuit Court decision means the injunction – the court order that has blocked the cut from being implemented – remains in place.
CDCAN Report #047-2010: Governor Wins Legal Victory - State Appeals Court Says Line Item Vetoes Last July are "Constitutional"
Tue, 2010-03-02 23:21 — chrisGovernor Wins Clear Legal Victory – State Appeals Court Says Line Item Vetoes “Constitutional”
Lawsuit Is One of Three Filed Seeking To Overturn Governor’s Line Item Vetoes Made to 2009-2010 Revised State Budget Last July
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/02/2010 07:40 PM (Pacific Time)] - The Schwarzenegger Administration won a clear legal victory today with the State Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruling 3 to 0 that his line item vetoes made to the revised 2009-2010 State Budget last July were constitutional. The case, St. John’s Well Child and Family Center et al v. Schwarzenegger et al, is one of three different lawsuits seeking to overturn some or all of the Governor’s line item vetoes made last July.
CDCAN Report #046-2010: Senate Budget Subcommittee Hearings to Begin Next Week - IHSS Teleconference by DSS on Program Integrity and Fraud Set for March 17 - Medicaid 1115 Waiver Discussion on Medical Homes March 4
Tue, 2010-03-02 13:10 — chrisCalifornia Legislative Update:
Senate Budget Subcommittee Schedule – Hearings To Begin This Month on Governor’s 2010-2011 Budget
- Medicaid Section 1115 Waiver Discussion on Medical Homes March 4th
- IHSS Teleconference by Dept of Social Services on Integrity and Fraud Program March 17th
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/02/2010 05:40 AM (Pacific Time)] - With nearly all of the special session budget bills passed by the Legislature and sent to the Governor last week and on Monday, the next phase of the state budget process will begin with budget subcommittee hearing late next week and continue through mid-May.
CDCAN Report #045-2010: Legislature Sends Special Session Budget Bill to Governor That Would Continue 3% or $115 Million (All Funds) Cuts to Regional Centers into 2010-2011 State Budget
Tue, 2010-03-02 12:59 — chrisCalifornia Budget Crisis:
LEGISLATURE SENDS SPECIAL SESSION BUDGET BILL THAT WOULD CONTINUE ADDITIONAL $115 MILLION CUT TO REGIONAL CENTERS INTO 2010-2011 STATE BUDGET YEAR
Reduction Would Continue 3% Cut To Payments to Most Regional Center Providers and 3% Cut to Regional Center Operations That Was Set To Expire on June 30th – Would Reinstate Some Reporting Requirements
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 03/02/2010 3:30 AM (Pacific Time)] - The Legislature passed and sent to the Governor a special session budget related bill (SBx8 4) that would continue into the 2010-2011 State Budget year that begins July 1st, over $115 million (all funds) in additional cuts to the 21 regional centers that coordinate services to over 240,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities that was set to expire on June 30, 2010. Most advocates expected that the reductions would be extended into the 2010-2011 State Budget year.
CDCAN Report #043-2010: Special Session Bill Passes Assembly Budget Committee Extending 3% Regional Center Cuts into 2010-2011 State Budget Year - Reinstates Some Reporting Requirements - Cuts Total Over $115 Million All Funds
Wed, 2010-02-24 20:59 — chrisSpecial Session 3% Developmental Services Reduction Bill Passes Out of Assembly Budget Committee – Cut Totals Over $115 Million State/Federal Funds
Bill Would Extend 3% Cut to Most Regional Center Provider Payments and Regional Center Operations Into the 2010-2011 State Budget Year – Amendments Would Reinstate July 1 Several Previously Suspended Regional Center Reporting Requirements – Bill Requires Final Approval by Assembly Expected Thursday and in the State Senate – No Other Major Cuts to Health and Human Services As This Point In Process
SACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 02/24/2010 07:00 PM (Pacific Time)] - The Assembly Budget Committee passed, with amendments, a special session budget related bill dealing with continuing additional cuts to the 21 regional centers that coordinate services to over 240,000 children and adults with developmental disabilities, and savings by increasing federal funding to the foster care program, that also includes many children with developmental disabilities and other special needs. Those two programs are the only cuts or savings to health and human services that legislative Democrats are willing to agree to at this point in the budget process.
Final Day for Public Comment on Proposal of Closure of Lanterman Developmental Center
Wed, 2010-02-24 20:37 — chrisFor More Information About Feb 24th Public Hearing or To Make Written Comments About Proposed Closure
For further information about this specific public hearing, persons can contact or to make written comments about the proposed closure (deadline for written comments is March 5, 2010 (Friday) by close of business for persons interested in submitting written comments to the Department of Developmental Services) contact or send comments to:
Cindy Coppage at the Department of Developmental Services
Developmental Centers Division
1600 9th Street Room 340 – MS 3-17
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-654-1963 email: Cindy.Coppage@dds.ca.gov
Hearing on Proposal of Closure of Lanterman Developmental Center in Pomona
Wed, 2010-02-24 20:28 — chrisSACRAMENTO, CALIF (CDCAN) [Updated 02/24/2010 12:00 PM (Pacific Time)] - In what is officially the first step in a two year or longer process required under State law, a public hearing on the proposed closure of the Frank D. Lanterman Developmental Center is underway today, February 24, 2010, Wednesday, which started at 12 noon and will continue until 7:00 PM, at the Lanterman Developmental Center Auditorium, 3530 West Pomona Boulevard, Pomona, CA 91769-0100.
