By If submitting electronically, please copy the text below, and we encourage you to add your personal stories and perspective to it. If submitting by mail you can DOWNLOAD A WORD FILE to edit and print out. Senator Richard Pan, ChairSenate Health Committee State Capitol, Room 2191 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: SB 650 (Stern) – Support Dear Senator Pan: I urge you and the members of the Senate Health Committee to support SB 650, a bill that will bring much-needed corporate transparency to public nursing home spending.
AB-849 Sample Support Letter
If submitting electronically, please copy the text below, and we encourage you to add your personal stories and perspective to it. If submitting by mail you can DOWNLOAD A WORD FILE to edit and print out. Assemblymember Mark Stone, Chair Assembly Judiciary Committee 1020 N Street, Room 104 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: AB 849 (Gómez Reyes) – Support Dear Assemblymember Stone: I urge you and the members of the Senate Health Committee to support AB 849, a bill that will restore a critical tool for protecting the rights and well-being of nursing home residents. Nursing home residents have been living a nightmare of isolation and death and they are in dire need of the private right of enforcement that was lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Residents whose rights are violated are now limited to $500 in damages, no matter how many or how egregious the violations. This creates an intolerable situation where harmful nursing home conduct becomes profitable. Health and Safety Code Section 1430(b) was enacted to protect and ensure the rights of people living in nursing homes. Last year, 1430(b) was dealt a devastating blow when the State Supreme Court ruled that the maximum damages available to residents / victims whose rights have been violated was $500, regardless of the severity or number of violations. As acknowledged by some of the Justices, the decision could not have come at a worse time for nursing home residents. Complaints against nursing homes are at an all-time high and the California Department of Public Health has never been less able to protect the rights and welfare of residents. Years of lax enforcement and the Supreme Court’s decision means there are virtually no repercussions for nursing homes that break the rules. AB 849 will deter harmful conduct in nursing homes and restore residents’ ability to seek damages for each violation they have suffered. The bill is an essential piece of the legislature’s 2021 PROTECT Plan, a package of bills aimed at reforming nursing homes to improve state oversight, financial transparency, accountability, and ultimately enhance care for all residents.
OPPOSE AB-499
AB 499 seeks to amend California law governing referral agencies for assisted living facilities (known in California as Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly or RCFEs) to provide accountability, but instead creates unnecessary communication and compliance barriers. Specifically, while the bill allows referral agencies to provide information to seniors about its services and fees verbally, it requires seniors to submit a written request if they want to receive such information in writing.
OPPOSE AB-1313
Since the outbreak of this horrible pandemic, CANHR has been inundated with calls from desperate and distraught family members about COVID-related illnesses and deaths and the substandard care their loved ones received in nursing homes. If enacted, AB 1313 would grant blanket immunity for COVID-related illness, injury, or death in all instances except where there was a grossly negligent act, or omission, willful or wanton misconduct, or unlawful discrimination by a business or an employee of the business.
AB 1136 (Rivas)
The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing has been pioneered by municipalities and counties in California as a way for property owners to finance voluntary energy and water efficiency and clean energy improvements. As with any program, problems exist, and recent trends have shown that with PACE loans, there is great potential for abusive lending practices and fraud, particularly for loans made to older and low-income homeowners.
Support AB-1136
The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing has been pioneered by municipalities and counties in California as a way for property owners to finance voluntary energy and water efficiency and clean energy improvements. As with any program, problems exist, and recent trends have shown that with PACE loans, there is great potential for abusive lending practices and fraud, particularly for loans made to older and low-income homeowners.
AB 874 Quirk-Silva
The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing has been pioneered by municipalities and counties in California as a way for property owners to finance voluntary energy and water efficiency and clean energy improvements. As with any program, problems exist, and recent trends have shown that with PACE loans, there is great potential for abusive lending practices and fraud, particularly for loans made to older and low-income homeowners.
Support AB-874
The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing has been pioneered by municipalities and counties in California as a way for property owners to finance voluntary energy and water efficiency and clean energy improvements. As with any program, problems exist, and recent trends have shown that with PACE loans, there is great potential for abusive lending practices and fraud, particularly for loans made to older and low-income homeowners.
AB 636 (Maienschein)
Currently, the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act (EADACPA) establishes procedures and requirements for reporting instances of known or suspected abuses or neglect of a California elder or dependent adult. Information relevant to the incident is to be given to specified investigators, including investigators from an adult protective services agency, a local law enforcement agency, and the probate court.
AB 447 (Grayson)
If enacted, AB 447 would require the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation to expand the reporting information related to newly covered individuals. CANHR believes that the additional information that AB 447 mandates is common sense and will increase consumer protection. Read the Bill Read CANHR Support Letter
Support AB-447
If enacted, AB 447 would require the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation to expand the reporting information related to newly covered individuals. CANHR believes that the additional information that AB 447 mandates is common sense and will increase consumer protection.
Support AB-470
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) is in strong support of AB 470 (Carrillo), a bill that would eliminate the asset limit for Medi-Cal programs serving seniors and persons with disabilities.
Support AB-1502
Assembly Member Muratsuchi’s Skilled Nursing Facility Ownership and Management Reform Act of 2021 addresses one of the gravest threats to the health and safety of nursing home residents: the proliferation of unsuitable, unapproved and unaccountable persons and entities owning and operating skilled nursing facilities in California.
AB 714 ( Maienschein)
AB 714 ( Maienschein) would require health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, to report communicable disease data to the department, patients or residents of the health facility, and their representatives and family members. It would also require the department to post data relating to the total number of disease-related deaths and suspected disease-related deaths reported from the health facilities on its website on a weekly basis.
AB-1502 Sample Support Letter
If submitting electronically, please copy the text below, and we encourage you to add your personal stories and perspective to it. If submitting by mail you can DOWNLOAD A WORD FILE to edit and print out. Assembly Member Jim Wood, Chair Assembly Health Committee State Capitol, Room 6005 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: AB 1502 (Muratsuchi) – Support Dear Chairman Wood: I urge you and the members of the Assembly Health Committee to support AB 1502 (Muratsuchi), The Skilled Nursing Facility Ownership and Management Reform Act of 2021.
Support AB-848
This bill would increase the personal needs allowance (PNA) for the Medi-Cal program from $35 to $80 per month, and require an annual adjustment based on the Consumer Price Index.
SB 664 (Allen) Hospice Moratorium
This bill responds to a remarkable investigation and series of articles by the Los Angeles Times on audacious, widespread fraud by hospices in Los Angeles County, which has seen explosive growth of for-profit hospices that has given it the highest concentration of hospices in the nation. SB 664 would impose a qualified moratorium on the issuance of new hospice licenses until 365 days after the California State Auditor publishes a report on hospice licensure or when it is repealed on January 1, 2027, whichever is soonest.
SB-460 Support
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) supports SB 460, conceptually, as a necessary bill to adopt constitutionally mandated protections and improve the health care decisionmaking process for unrepresented California nursing home residents.
AB-749 Support
California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) is in strong support of AB 749, authored by Assemblyman Nazarian, relating to the qualifications of medical directors at skilled nursing facilities, also known as nursing homes.
AB 1042 (Jones Sawyer): Related Party Accountability
Establishes shared liability for entities that share ownership or control of nursing homes. Related parties will be liable for unpaid state monetary penalties for citations and unpaid Quality Assurance Fees. Read the Bill