Plain English Breakdown
The official summary text contains a typo listing both 'July 1, 2026' and 'July 1, 2027' for the submission deadline; context suggests July 1, 2027 is correct since the group must be formed by July 1, 2026.
Emergency Services for Older Adults and People with Disabilities During Disasters
This law requires the Secretary of CalHHS to create a working group that studies how to safely move and shelter older adults and people with disabilities in long-term care facilities during disasters.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Secretary of CalHHS, by July 1, 2026, to form a working group with other state departments and entities.
- Directs the group to study evacuation and sheltering needs for older adults and people with disabilities in long-term care facilities during natural, technological, or manmade disasters.
- Requires the Secretary of CalHHS to submit recommendations from the group by July 1, 2027.
- Ends this requirement on January 1, 2030.
Who It Names or Affects
- The California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) Secretary
- Older adults living in long-term care facilities
- Persons with disabilities living in long-term care facilities
Terms To Know
- Long-term care facilities
- Places like skilled nursing homes or intermediate care centers that are regulated by the State Department of Public Health.
- Working group
- A team formed by the Secretary of CalHHS with other state departments and entities to study a problem and offer solutions.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill only requires recommendations; it does not create new emergency plans or funding yet.
- The specific members of the working group are not named in this text, other than requiring coordination with various state departments and entities.
- This requirement ends on January 1, 2030.