(a) On or before February 1, 2024, the State Department of Social Services shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature a written communication that describes the process that would need to occur in order to switch the method the state uses to meet the federal maintenance of supplementary payment levels requirement for the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled from the current supplementary payment level method to the total expenditures method. This shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) A feasible timeline for notifying the federal Social Security Administration of the change, or for meeting any other necessary associated federal requirements, including an identification of the optimal month of the year for notification given program operations and any other considerations.

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(2) A calculation of the new total expenditure federal maintenance of supplementary payment levels for the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled if this change were to be made.

(3) Any other anticipated challenges, barriers, and considerations that should be taken into account in consideration of this methodology change for meeting the federal maintenance of supplementary payment levels requirement for the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled.

(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2025, and shall be repealed on January 1, 2026.

(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 43, Sec. 53. (AB 120) Effective July 10, 2023. Inoperative July 1, 2025, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2026, by its own provisions.)