In-home supportive services: provider wages and 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 supportive services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires the state and counties to share the annual cost of providing IHSS, and requires all counties to have a rebased County IHSS Maintenance of Effort (MOE) , as prescribed. Existing law requires the state to pay 65%, and each county to pay 35%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases when any increase in provider wages or benefits is locally negotiated, mediated, or imposed by a county, public authority, or nonprofit consortium, or any increase in provider wages or benefits is adopted by ordinance, and associated employment taxes, as specified. Existing law requires the rebased County IHSS MOE to be adjusted for the annualized cost of those local increases. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, instead require the state to pay 70%, and each county to pay 30%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases and associated employment taxes in any impasse county, as defined, that enters into a collective bargaining agreement, as specified, with its providers between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021. The bill would make conforming changes to related rebased County IHSS MOE provisions.