(a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2009, a pilot project shall be established in five consenting counties that provides severely impaired recipients who receive in-home supportive services under this article through the public authority, as described in Section 12301.6, with a choice of receiving services through the public authority or receiving services through a voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency pursuant to Section 12302. The pilot project shall be developed to provide services to severely impaired recipients, as described in Section 12303.4. (2) To accomplish this end, the five consenting counties shall administer the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program through a public authority pursuant to Section 12301.6. (3) (A) Following the submission of input and recommendations of the IHSS advisory committee for the county, each participating county, with the consent of the public authority in that county, or the public authority, with the consent of the participating county, shall contract with a voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency, pursuant to Section 12302. (B) Severely impaired recipients in each participating county may continue to receive supportive services through the countyâs public authority, or may choose to receive services through the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency, pursuant to paragraph (1). Recipients who choose to receive services through the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency shall be compensated only for those services described in the recipientsâ then-existing care plan, as approved by the county social worker. (4) Administrative costs of the pilot project, including the cost of developing guidelines other than the guidelines in this section and the cost of administering the project and providing oversight, shall not be paid by the state. Instead, an estimate of administrative costs shall be included in the county request for proposal for each contract with the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency and administrative costs shall then be paid by the agency up to the amount estimated unless the county and agency reach an alternative cost-sharing agreement in the contract that does not involve state participation. (b) (1) (A) For purposes of this section, to the extent possible, all providers employed by the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency shall be persons previously listed on the public authorityâs registry. The agency shall, pursuant to the contract, continually recruit and provide the public authority with names of new workers for the registry. (B) The voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency in each participating county shall provide for training for all providers recruited pursuant to this paragraph. A public authority may retain the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency to provide these services for and under the direction of the public authority. A public authority shall not be eligible to receive reimbursement for any costs associated with administering the pilot project. This shall not prohibit any public authority from using the funding it receives pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) for newsletters and other means of communication about training opportunities available through the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency. (C) All providers employed by the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency shall be paid no less than the wages and benefits provided for in the public authorityâs collective bargaining agreement, provided that this provision shall not obligate the state to participate in a contract rate higher than the maximum allowable contract rate. However, providers employed by the voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency are not covered by any existing collective bargaining agreements with the public authority. (2) A voluntary nonprofit or proprietary agency that contracts with a participating county pursuant to subdivision (a) shall perform all of the following duties: (A) Maintain a live, on-call emergency service response s
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