Section 6150 Of Article 4. Inclusion Of Support Services In Sales Tax From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 4.
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. For purposes of this article, notwithstanding any provision
of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 6001), the following words have
the following meanings in extending the sales tax to support
services:
(a) "County" means a county, city and county, or a public
authority or nonprofit consortium, as defined in Section 12301.6 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(b) "Gross receipts" means the total amount of the sales of a
provider, valued in money, whether paid in money or otherwise,
without any deduction for the cost of materials used, any costs of
transportation of the provider, or any other expenses. "Gross
receipts" shall not include a supplementary payment received by a
provider pursuant to Section 12306.6 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code.
(c) "Personal care services" means (1) assistance with ambulation,
(2) bathing, oral hygiene, and grooming, (3) dressing, (4) care and
assistance with prosthetic devices, (5) bowel, bladder, and menstrual
care, (6) repositioning, skin care, range of motion exercises, and
transfers, (7) feeding and assurance of adequate fluid intake, (8)
respiration, and (9) assistance with self-administration of
medications.
(d) (1) "Provider" means a natural person who is authorized by law
to provide all of the support services defined in subdivision (i)
and who makes a retail sale.
(2) "Provider" also means a nongovernmental person that arranges
for the retail sale of all support services defined in subdivision
(i). When this definition applies, any natural person described by
paragraph (1) who provides services under the direction of the
nongovernmental person is not a provider.
(e) "Recipient" means a natural person who receives support
services.
(f) "Retail sale" means a sale to a recipient.
(g) "Sale" means the furnishing of support services for a
consideration.
(h) "Seller" includes the State Department of Social Services in
its capacity as the state agency that oversees the In-Home Supportive
Services program, or a county in which county staff serve as
homemakers pursuant to Section 12302 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code in those instances where the department is not the seller, or a
county that contracts with a nongovernmental contractor to arrange
for the retail sale of support services to eligible recipients
pursuant to Section 12301.6 or 12302 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, or any other nongovernmental person that arranges for the
retail sale of support services, wherever located.
(i) "Support services" means the following services provided by a
provider:
(1) Domestic services and services related to domestic services.
(2) Heavy cleaning.
(3) Personal care services, as defined in subdivision (c).
(4) Accompaniment when needed during necessary travel to
health-related appointments or to alternative resource sites.
(5) Yard hazard abatement.
(6) Protective supervision.
(7) Teaching and demonstration directed at reducing the need for
other supportive services.
(8) Paramedical services that make it possible for the recipient
to establish and maintain an independent living arrangement,
including those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a
licensed health care professional who is lawfully authorized to do
so, which persons could provide for themselves but for their
functional limitations. Paramedical services include the
administration of medications, puncturing the skin, or inserting a
medical device into a body orifice, activities requiring sterile
procedures, or other activities requiring judgment based on training
given by a licensed health care professional.