---
type: "Bill"
title: "In-Home Supportive Services program."
description: "Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law prohibits a person from providing supportive services if he or she has been convicted of specified crimes in the previous 10 years. Existing law authorizes a recipient of services who wishes to employ a provider applicant who has been convicted of a specified offense to submit to the county a prescribed individual waiver, signed by the recipient, or by the recipient's authorized representative, and returned to the county welfare department."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 876"
citation: "California AB 876 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["In-Home Supportive Services program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valadao"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2011-02-17"
last_action: "2011-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e284c5c-4770-48d6-99fc-97aac1f04116"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876"
source_hash: "46904eda09a3964205df3f0a84674b7ebf694d81ae93a4f896e5bfc6823bf3cd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 876 (20112012) — In-Home Supportive Services program.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law prohibits a person from providing supportive services if he or she has been convicted of specified crimes in the previous 10 years. Existing law authorizes a recipient of services who wishes to employ a provider applicant who has been convicted of a specified offense to submit to the county a prescribed individual waiver, signed by the recipient, or by the recipient's authorized representative, and returned to the county welfare department.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/17/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876&version=20110AB87699INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876&version=20110AB87698AMD)
3. **05/16/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876&version=20110AB87697AMD)
4. **07/08/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876&version=20110AB87695CHP)
5. **AB876** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876)
6. **06/24/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB876&version=20110AB87696ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 876 VALADAO Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valadao — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2011-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-05-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (May 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1447.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1536.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2011-07-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 73, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e284c5c-4770-48d6-99fc-97aac1f04116`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).