In-Home Supportive Services: pilot project.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law permits services to be provided under the IHSS program either through the employment of individual providers, a contract between the county and an entity for the provision of services, the creation by the county of a public authority, or a contract between the county and a nonprofit consortium. Existing law requires, commencing January 1, 2009, the establishment of a pilot project in 5 consenting counties under which the project provides severely impaired IHSS recipients, as described, with the choice to receive in-home supportive services either through a public authority or a contracting voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency, as specified. This bill would, instead, require the pilot project to commence January 1, 2011, and would authorize the pilot project to be established in not more than 5 consenting counties.