In-Home Supportive Services: provider health care benefits.

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. Under existing law, the state, a county, a public authority, a nonprofit consortium, or an IHSS recipient may be considered the employer of an IHSS provider. Existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect January 1, 2014. Among other things, PPACA imposes an assessment on certain employers who fail to offer to their full-time employees and their dependents the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan. This bill would establish an advisory committee to assess the impact of PPACA on health care benefits for IHSS providers and would provide for the appointment of members to the committee by the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Senate Committee on Rules, as specified. The bill would require the advisory committee to provide a report to specified legislative committees on or before March 1, 2014, on the appropriate employer in the IHSS program to provide health care benefits to IHSS providers under PPACA.