In-home supportive services providers: criminal exclusions.

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 prohibits a person from providing supportive services if he or she has been convicted of specified crimes in the previous 10 years, unless the information or accusation against the person has been dismissed, or he or she has obtained a certificate of rehabilitation, as specified. In addition, existing law authorizes a recipient of services who wishes to employ a provider applicant who has been convicted of a specified offense to submit to the county a prescribed individual waiver, signed by the recipient, or by the recipient's authorized representative, and returned to the county welfare department. Existing law also permits a provider applicant who has been convicted of a specified offense to request from the State Department of Social Services a general exception from exclusion as a potential provider. This bill would delete the authority of a recipient to submit a waiver for the purpose of employing a person who has been convicted of one of the specified crimes as the recipient's IHSS provider.