In-home supportive services: criminal background checks.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law authorizes 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 a county, public authority, or nonprofit consortium, as applicable, to conduct an investigation of the qualifications and background of an IHSS provider applicant, including specified criminal background checks. This bill would require, as part of those criminal background checks, the Department of Justice to request federal summary criminal history information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to review the information returned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and provide it to the county, public authority, or nonprofit consortium.