The California Department of Social Services has issued information about new regulations implementing IHSS provider enrollment rules and procedures. These rules and procedures include 90 days to complete the provider enrollment process with a possible 45 day extension for good cause, attending an in-person orientation, fingerprinting for criminal background check, notice of eligibility or ineligibility to be enrolled as a provider and waiver of disqualifying convictions. In addition, the county will determine whether a provider has legal authority to work in the United States.
The new regulations also specify that an enrolled provider cannot be required to complete the provider enrollment process when the provider moves from one county to another. The county that the provider moved from is obligated to give the new county the criminal background check clearance documents and the new county must accept that documentation. ACL 16-53 (July 7, 2016).