Individuals with disabilities: direct benefit payments.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information on the consequences if an urgency statute is not passed.

Direct Benefit Payments for People with Disabilities

This law requires that any reduction in direct benefit payments to people with disabilities must be passed as an urgency statute, which includes a statement of necessity and is subject to specific voting requirements.

What This Bill Does

• Requires bills reducing direct benefits for disabled individuals to be enacted as urgency statutes.
• Prohibits these bills from including unrelated provisions.
• Applies only to specified programs like SSP, CAPI, state disability insurance, and workers’ compensation.
• Makes the law self-executing and severable.

Who It Names or Affects

• People with disabilities who receive direct benefit payments.
• State agencies responsible for these programs.

Terms To Know

Urgency statute

A type of law that must be passed quickly to address immediate issues, requiring a rollcall vote in each house with two-thirds majority support.

Direct benefit payments

Money given directly to individuals by the government for specific needs or programs.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill only applies to certain disability-related programs in California.
• It does not specify what happens if an urgency statute is not passed.

Official Summary Text

ACA 17, as introduced, Ortega.
Individuals with disabilities: direct benefit payments.
Existing statutory provisions provide for direct benefit payments to individuals with disabilities pursuant to various programs, including (1) the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (SSP), which requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to SSP recipients to supplement Supplemental Security Income payments made available pursuant to the federal Social Security Act, (2) the Cash Assistance Program for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Legal Immigrants (CAPI), which provides cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants who are not citizens of the United States, as specified, (3) the state disability insurance program, which provides for the partial compensation for the wage losses suffered by eligible individuals unemployed because of disability, and (4) the
workers’ compensation system, which compensates an employee for injuries sustained in the course of the employee’s employment.
The California Constitution requires urgency statutes to include in one section of the bill a statement of facts constituting the necessity for immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety. The California Constitution requires in each house the section and the bill to be passed separately, each by rollcall vote entered in the journal,
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of the membership concurring.
This measure would require a bill that reduces a direct benefit payment to an individual with a disability to only be passed by the enactment of an urgency statute and would prohibit the bill from including any other unrelated provisions. The measure would specify that its provisions only apply to SSP, CAPI, the state
disability insurance program, and the workers’ compensation system, as specified. The measure would make its provisions self-executing and severable.

Current Bill Text

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