ihss department at daas and the ihss consortium. it's very confusing so since we weren't a consortium and the name has been confusing we decided to change our name to home bridge which is a much better reflection of the agency as well as some of the expansion of the work that we're doing. we recently got the contract in san mateo county with the contractor and we're no longer just ihss in san francisco so the name is a better reflection, and we changed it march 1, something like that. >> thank you. >> your r. -- you're welcome. >> any other questions or comments? commissioner. >> yeah. i asked this before but what is the difference between ihss and home bridge? >> i'm sorry. >> what's the difference between the ihss and the new name home bridge what kind of job, what kind of function is different? ihss. >> there is no difference. >> ihssue mean the public authority, commissioner? >> yes. >> so the ihss public authority does not employ the home care workers. the consumers hire directly their home care workers and home bridge, formerl

there was a hearing on march 26 and it focused on those variety of areas, adult protective services, ihss, and very definitely the expansion of the ssi and ssp work. they were all addressed. individual pieces of legislation are being developed along those lines to address those topics as we move through the budget process. calworks was also one of though topics. last year senators carol lui and wolk and beale worked on a report shattered system in california and the senior legislature group was informed of legislation that goes along with a number of those recommendations, so right now there are 19 bills. i have information on them that would address those recommendations in the report. 15 of those have been sent to the legislative committee for review. none of them are overlaps of the csl legislation that i mentioned at the last two commission hearings so they have asked for letters of report and resources for testimony. we don't have any specifics on that and as soon as we do we will let you know. so that's 23 bills in total that are being monitored right now by the csl. we were told th