In-Home Supportive Services program: provider exclusions: crimes.

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. Under existing law, a person is prohibited from providing or receiving payment for providing services for 10 years following conviction for, or incarceration following conviction for specified crimes, including fraud against a government health care or supportive services program. Existing law, subject to provisions authorizing waivers and exemptions, also prohibits a person from providing or receiving payment for providing services for 10 years following a conviction for, or incarceration following a conviction for, a serious or violent felony, a felony for which registration as a sex offender is required, or a felony misuse of CalFresh funds. This bill would repeal the provisions that authorize a waiver or exemption from the 10-year exclusion for a person who has committed a serious or violent felony, a felony for which registration as a sex offender is required, or a felony misuse of CalFresh funds.