In-home supportive services: family caregivers: advisory committee.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with supportive services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law provides that a person who is the parent or a spouse of a recipient of those services shall be paid for providing specified services to the recipient through the program. This bill would, until January 1, 2019, establish the In-Home Supportive Services Family Caregiver Benefits Advisory Committee within the State Department of Social Services, as specified, for the purpose of describing the availability of, and barriers to accessing, employment-based supports and protections, as specified, and studying the impact of the lack of access to these supports and protections on individuals who provide supportive services to a spouse or as the parent of a recipient child. The bill would require the advisory committee to submit a peer-reviewed report to the Legislature, as specified, on or before January 1, 2018.