AB 1471 Summary

• Establishes the California In-Home Supportive Services Authority (Statewide Authority) as the employer of record for collective bargaining with individual IHSS providers, replacing county roles after specified implementation dates.

• Requires the Statewide Authority to provide 90 days' notice to counties before implementing negotiated changes to locally administered health benefits for IHSS providers.

• Clarifies that predecessor agencies cannot meet and confer with employee organizations after the Statewide Authority assumes their rights and responsibilities on the county implementation date.

• Creates County IHSS Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements beginning July 1, 2012, requiring counties to pay specified amounts instead of the nonfederal share of IHSS costs, with adjustments for wage and benefit increases.

• Authorizes managed care health plans to contract with qualified agencies for IHSS provision and requires managed care plans to assume financial liability for IHSS services, enter into wage payment contracts with the state, and maintain provider protections.