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SB-309 • 2026

In-Home Supportive Services program: provider wages.

In-Home Supportive Services program: provider wages.

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Jones
Last action
2026-02-02
Official status
Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest indicate that the changes made by this bill are technical and nonsubstantive. Therefore, it does not provide specific details on funding requirements beyond confirming a technical adjustment to existing law.

In-Home Supportive Services Program: Provider Wages

The bill makes a technical change to the rules about how counties pay for increases in wages and benefits for people who provide support services at home.

What This Bill Does

  • Makes a technical, nonsubstantive change to existing law regarding funding for provider wage or benefit increases.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Counties that run the In-Home Supportive Services program

Terms To Know

In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program
A program where counties help older people, blind or disabled individuals stay at home by providing them with necessary care.
Provider wages and benefits
The money and extra perks given to the workers who provide support services in homes.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how much providers will be paid or what kind of benefits they receive.
  • Only makes a technical change, so it does not affect provider wages directly.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 California Legislative Information

    Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

  2. 2025-02-19 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

  3. 2025-02-11 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.

  4. 2025-02-10 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 309, as introduced, Jones.
In-Home Supportive Services program: provider wages.
Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with supportive services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires a county to use county-only funds to fund both the county share and the state share, except as specified, when any increase in provider wages or benefits is locally negotiated, mediated, or imposed by a county, public authority, or nonprofit consortium, or any increase in provider wages or benefits is adopted by ordinance.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Current Bill Text

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