Bill Text: CA AB1229 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: End Foster Youth Student Hunger in California Act of 2019.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1229 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1229-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 17, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 16, 2019 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 03, 2019 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1229 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Wicks (Coauthor: Assembly Member Gipson) |
February 21, 2019 |
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the End Foster Youth Student Hunger in California Act of 2019.SEC. 2.
The Legislature finds and declares the following:SEC. 3.
Section 69519.1 is added to the Education Code, to read:69519.1.
(a) The Student Aid Commission shall report to the Legislature, no later than March 1, 2020, the amount of funding and the authority it would need to establish a Transition Age Foster Youth Meal Plan Program. In developing this report, the commission shall assume all of the following:SEC. 4.
Section 18901.12 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:18901.12.
(a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department shall establish an official approval process to ensure that paid or unpaid internship hours worked by a foster youth student outside of approved federal or state work study, such as working in a hospital, clinic, school, university, nonprofit community-based group, nongovernmental organization, business entity, or corporation, qualify the foster youth student for an exemption to the student eligibility rule described in Section 273.5(a) of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The purpose of the approval process is to expand the type of work hours allowable to qualify a foster youth student for CalFresh benefits by including hours worked through an official paid or unpaid internship.SEC. 5.
Section 18901.13 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:18901.13.
The department shall issue guidance to county human services agencies to require the following practices that have been identified by the department to increase rates of completed CalFresh applications and CalFresh participation rates of exiting foster youth:SEC. 4.SEC. 6.
Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 18997) is added to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:CHAPTER 16. End Foster Youth Student Hunger in California Act of 2019
18997.
(a) The State Department of Social Services shall provide a state-funded(a)The State Department of Social Services shall establish an official approval process to ensure that paid or unpaid internship hours worked by a foster youth student outside of approved federal or state work study, such as working in a hospital, clinic, school, university, nonprofit community-based group, nongovernmental organization, business entity, or corporation, are counted by county human services departments for working foster youth for purposes of meeting requirements related to the CalFresh student rule described in Section 18901.11. The purpose of the approval process is to expand the type of work hours allowable to qualify a foster youth student for CalFresh benefits by including hours worked
through an official paid or unpaid internship.
(b)For the purposes of this chapter “foster youth student” means an individual attending an institution of higher education who is a foster youth or a former foster youth.
The State Department of Social Services shall issue guidance to county human services departments to require the following practices that have been identified by the department to increase rates of completed CalFresh applications and CalFresh participation rates of exiting foster youth:
(a)Include CalFresh participation outcomes as part of the contract with Independent Living Program (ILP) providers.
(b)Designate CalFresh eligibility workers who are subject matter experts on foster youth applications and funding, and who can expedite their CalFresh applications.
(c)Colocate ILP coordinators, probation officers, social workers, and eligibility workers so they are able to work together to assist the foster youth in applying for and receiving benefits.
(d)Allow a notice of action for a youth to be sent to the county child welfare services office until the youth obtains stable housing.
(e)Provide program guides with detailed instructions for social workers and probation officers to follow at specific intervals of the case planning and emancipation planning processes.
(f)Establish a self-initiated workfare program for former foster youth that will allow them to meet the able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) time limit-related work
requirement.
This chapter shall be implemented to the extent not prohibited by federal law.