BILL NUMBER: AB 1260	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 5, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 27, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Huffman  
Fuller 
    (   Coauthors:  
Assembly Members   Beall,  
  Tom Berryhill,   
 Blumenfield,     Buchanan,
    Carter,  
  Galgiani,    
Jones,     Krekorian, 
   Nava,   
 Portantino,     Salas,
    Silva,  
 and Smyth   ) 
    (   Coauthors:  
Senators   DeSaulnier,   
 Pavley,     Runner,
    and Strickland 
 ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

    An act to amend Sections 4686.5 and 4688.1 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code, relating to developmental services, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. 
 An act to amend Section 153 of, and to add Section 153.5 to, the
Water Code, relating to the California Water Commission. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1260, as amended,  Huffman   Fuller 
.  Developmental services: regional centers.  
California Water Commission: terms of office.  
   Existing law establishes the California Water Commission in the
Department of Water Resources. Under existing law, the commission
consists of 9 members who are appointed to 4-year terms by the
Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Existing law
requires the terms of the 7 members in office as of January 1, 1958,
to expire as follows: one member on January 15, 1958, 2 members on
January 15, 1959, and 2 members on January 15, 1960. Existing law
requires the terms of the 2 members added to the commission after
January 1, 1959, to expire as follows: one member on January 15,
1962, and one member on January 15, 1963. Thereafter, the successors
to the members of the commission are required to be appointed for
terms of 4 years.  
   This bill, with respect to the term of any member of the
commission whose appointment has been confirmed by the Senate by
January 1, 2011, and who is serving a term that is unexpired as of
January 1, 2011, would change the expiration date of those terms to
May 14, 2014. The bill, commencing on May 14, 2014, would require
members succeeding to these terms to be appointed to the unexpired
terms as specified by existing law.  
   The bill would also make conforming changes to existing law. 

   Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities
Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is
responsible for providing various services and supports to
individuals with developmental disabilities through contracts with
local, nonprofit regional centers. The services and supports to be
provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual
program plan (IPP), developed in accordance with prescribed
requirements. Those services and supports include, among other
things, respite services, alternative senior programs, and
alternative customized programs.  
   Under existing law, a regional center is prohibited from
purchasing more than 21 days of out-of-home respite services in a
fiscal year and more than 90 hours of in-home respite services in a
quarter.  
   This bill would, instead, prohibit the regional centers from
purchasing more than 98% of the annualized volume of in-home and
out-of-home respite services utilized by a consumer who received
those services in the 2008-09 fiscal year.  
   Existing law requires vendors of prescribed services to offer an
alternative senior program component, as described. 

   This bill would, instead, permit this component to be offered. The
bill would require the programs to be offered within the provider's
existing capacity and would allow vendors to formulate agreements to
meet the program needs. The bill would also require the regional
centers to take appropriate steps to make sure that sufficient
program capacity exists to meet the individual needs of consumers
wishing to enroll in alternative senior programs that are consistent
with the individual's IPP.  
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  2/3   majority  . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee:  yes   no  .
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    Section 153 of the   Water
Code   is amended to read: 
   153.   (a)    The terms of the members of the
California Water Commission in office  when this article
takes effect   as of January 1, 1958, shall expire
as follows:  one 
    (1)     One  member on January 15,
1958  , two   . 
    (2)     Two  members on January 15,
1959  , two   . 
    (3)     Two  members on January 15,
1960  , and two   . 
    (4)     Two  members on January 15,
1961. 
   The 
    (b)     The  terms of the two
additional members of the commission provided for by  the act
amending this section first appointed by the Governor  
Chapter 2112 of the Statutes of 1959  shall expire as follows:
 one 
    (1)     One  member on January 15,
1962  , and one   . 
    (2)     One  member on January 15,
1963.  The 
    (c)     The  terms of the successors
to  such   the  members shall be for four
years.
   SEC. 2.    Section 153.5 is added to the  
Water Code   , to read:  
   153.5.  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 153 and 154, the term of any
member of the California Water Commission, whose appointment has been
confirmed by the Senate and who is serving a term that is unexpired
as of January 1, 2011, shall expire on May 14, 2014.
   (b) Commencing May 14, 2014, members shall be appointed to the
unexpired terms succeeding to the terms specified in subdivision (a)
of Section 153.  All matter omitted in this version of the bill
appears in the bill as amended in the Senate, September 4, 2009.
(JR11)