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 01/08/25 - Introduced

 AB-163 Developmental services.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/26/2026 12:36 PM

AB163:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 26, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 163

Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel Committee on Budget (Assembly Members Gabriel (Chair), Addis, Ahrens, Alvarez, Bennett, Bonta, Caloza, Connolly, Fong, Haney, Hart, Jackson, Lee, Ortega, Patel, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Rogers, Schiavo, Schultz, Sharp-Collins, Solache, Stefani, Ward, and Wilson)

January 08, 2025

An act relating to the Budget Act of 2025. to amend Sections 14672.9, 15432, 95007, 95008, 95012, and 95024 of, and to add Chapter 3.1 (commencing with Section 95013) to Title 14 of, the Government Code, to amend Section 10295 of the Public Contract Code, to amend Sections 4435.1, 4435.2, 4519.2, 4519.10, 4519.11, 4572, 4620.5, 4622, 4625.5, 4629, 4636, 4648, 4685.8, 4688.21, 4689.1, 4851, and 4856, 4861, and 4865 of, to amend and repeal Sections 4429, 4430, 4474.1, 4474.12, 4474.15, and 4731 of, to amend, repeal, and add Sections 4474.2, 4519.1, 4620.3, and 4691 of, to add Sections 4418.05, 4519.12, 4621.6, 4689.9, and 4868.6 to, to add Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 4890) to Division 4.5 of, to repeal Section 4892 of, and to repeal and add Section
 4625.6 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, and to repeal Section 53 of Chapter 171 of the Statutes of 2001, to repeal Section 70 of Chapter 758 of the Statutes of 2008, and to repeal Section 19 of Chapter 26 of the Statutes of 2016, relating to developmental services, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 163, as amended, Committee on Budget.
 Budget Act of 2025. Developmental services.

(1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of state developmental centers, community facilities, and acute crisis homes to provide care to persons with developmental disabilities, as specified.

This bill would authorize the department to make direct care purchases in individual amounts of less than $10,000 commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, as specified, for facilities operated by the department, and would require the department to establish and maintain a written policy and procedures manual to guide the implementation of these provisions. The bill would define “direct care purchases” to mean a good or service
 necessary for an individual’s health, safety, or continuity of care, as specified.

(2) Existing law places various requirements on the department to report specified information to the Legislature, including reports on how the department will provide access to crisis services after the closure of a developmental center, the use of the department’s employees in providing services in the community to assist in meeting the goal of successfully transitioning developmental center residents to community living, best practices for regional center administrative management and purchase of services, and the estimated amount of General Fund expenditures used to backfill federal funding as a result of the decertification of intermediate care facility units at the Sonoma Developmental Center.

This bill would remove those and other obsolete reporting requirements on the
 department.

(3) Existing law authorizes family home agencies to offer services and supports in family homes or family teaching homes, as defined. Existing law requires the department to promulgate regulations for family home agencies, family teaching homes, and family homes that include standards and requirements related to, among other things, rates of payment for family home agencies and approved family home providers.

This bill would authorize the department to establish a distinct service code and rate model for the family teaching home that is separate from the service code and rate model for the family home agency and that considers costs for housing, staffing, and census. If established by the department, the bill would require family home agencies that provide family teaching homes to use the service code and rate model for th