Plain English Breakdown
The official text states the department must 'oversee' a stakeholder process through a panel; it clarifies that creating or updating a panel is authorized but emphasizes oversight of the process.
Support for Older Immigrants in California
This law requires the Department of Aging to oversee a panel that studies how best to support older and aging immigrants in California, regardless of their immigration status.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Department of Aging to oversee a stakeholder process through a panel to find ways to support older and aging immigrants.
- Allows the department director to modify an existing panel for this purpose if one already exists.
- Requires the panel to include representatives from the State Department of Social Services and invite specified experts.
- Directs the group to consider issues like affordability, access to social services, and housing.
- Sets a deadline for the first meeting within 120 days after funding becomes available.
- Allows the department to hire academic research groups to help with the study.
- Requires the panel to submit findings by July 1, 2028, on how to best support older and aging immigrants.
- Requires a joint report from both departments containing these findings be sent to the Legislature by December 1, 2028.
Who It Names or Affects
- The California Department of Aging
- The State Department of Social Services
- Older and aging immigrants in California regardless of immigration status
Terms To Know
- Appropriation
- Money officially set aside by the government to pay for a specific purpose.
- Stakeholder process
- A method of gathering input from people or groups who have an interest in the topic being studied, used here through a panel.
Limits and Unknowns
- The law only takes effect if money is approved for this purpose.
- These rules will end on January 1, 2029.
- The bill does not specify exactly how much funding the panel needs.