AB 346: In-home supportive services: licensed health care professional certification.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with specified services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law defines supportive services for purposes of the IHSS program to include those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a licensed health care professional, which persons could provide for themselves, but for their functional limitations. Existing law requires an applicant for, or recipient of, in-home supportive services, as a condition of receiving these services, to obtain a certification from a licensed health care professional declaring that the applicant or recipient is unable to perform some activities of daily living independently, and that without services to assist the applicant or recipient with activities of daily living, the applicant or recipient is at risk of placement in out-of-home care, and defines a licensed health care professional for this purpose to mean an individual licensed in California by the appropriate California regulatory agency, acting within the scope of their license or certificate as defined in the Business and Professions Code.

This bill would use the above-described definition of “licensed health care professional” for purposes of the provisions relating to paramedical services, and would, for purposes of the certification requirement, add to the above-described definition of “licensed health care professional” that the licensed individual has primary responsibilities to diagnose or provide treatment and care for physical or mental impairments that cause or contribute to an individual’s functional limitations.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. August 29, 2025In committee: Held under submission.
2. July 14, 2025In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
3. July 9, 2025From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4. July 1, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
5. June 18, 2025Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
6. June 4, 2025In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
7. June 3, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2003.)
8. May 27, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
9. May 23, 2025Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
10. May 23, 2025Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
11. May 23, 2025From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
12. May 7, 2025In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.