AB-1575 • 2026

Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Arambula
Last action: 2026-06-10
Official status: Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
Effective date: Not listed

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Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.

AB 1575, as amended, Arambula.

What This Bill Does

AB 1575, as amended, Arambula.
Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Under existing law, the services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan, developed in accordance with prescribed requirements.

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Bill History

2026-06-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
2026-06-01 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2026-05-28 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)
2026-05-19 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-05-18 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2026-05-14 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 14).
2026-05-06 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2026-04-15 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2026-01-13 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
2026-01-12 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1575, as amended, Arambula.
Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Under existing law, the services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan, developed in accordance with prescribed requirements. Existing law defines “consumer” for these purposes.
This bill would replace “consumer” with “person eligible for regional center services” throughout the act, and would also remove gendered language.
Existing law requires the Director of Developmental Services to develop program standards and establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process
for setting rates of state payment, based upon those standards, for in-home respite services purchased by regional centers from agencies vendored to provide these services. Existing law defines “in-home respite services” as intermittent or regularly scheduled temporary nonmedical care and supervision provided in the client’s own home, for a regional center client who resides with a family member, and provides that the services are designed to, among other things, attend to the client’s basic self-help needs and other activities of daily living, including interaction, socialization, and continuation of usual daily routines that would ordinarily be performed by the family members.
This bill would expand the definition of “in-home respite services” to include the provision of that care and supervision in the client’s local community, and would authorize the services to be designed to attend to the client’s appropriate community integration and socialization that ordinarily would be performed by the family members.

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