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AB-1313 Older individuals: case management services.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 9580) is added to Division 8.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

CHAPTER  8.5. Case Management Services
9580.
 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a) Case management services help older individuals with complex issues to navigate financial, housing, and care issues and to implement solutions.
(b) Together, these services are powerfully effective at improving health outcomes and preventing crises.
(c) Case management services focus on the social determinants of health and help older individuals to set a plan for stability.
9581.
 (a) Subject to an appropriation made for the express purpose of implementing this section, the department shall establish a case management services pilot program. The purpose of the program shall be to expand statewide the local capacity of supportive services programs under this division by providing case management services to older individuals, as defined in Section 9018, who need assistance to maintain health and economic stability.
(b) The Counties of Alameda, Marin, and Sonoma shall participate in the pilot program described in subdivision (a).
(c) The three counties participating in the pilot program shall coordinate with their respective area agencies on aging or other county or community-based entities to deliver the case management services.
(d) (1) The three participating counties shall measure performance outcomes during the course of implementing this section.
(2) On an annual basis, for the first five years during which an appropriation is made for implementing this section, the participating counties shall submit reports to the department containing data on the performance outcomes, in order to determine the efficacy of the pilot program and to inform and shape solutions under the master plan for aging described in Section 9850.
9582.
 This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.
SEC. 2.
 The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of the Counties of Alameda, Marin, and Sonoma with regard to those counties’ readiness to participate in the pilot program described in this act based on the counties’ programmatic and administrative infrastructure of case management services for older individuals.
SEC. 3.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.