Bill Text: CA AB1384 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Victims of violent crimes: trauma recovery centers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 587, Statutes of 2017. [AB1384 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1384-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
September 01, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Senate
June 19, 2017 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
May 30, 2017 |
Assembly Bill | No. 1384 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Weber (Principal coauthor: Senator Wiener) (Coauthor: Senator Hertzberg) |
February 17, 2017 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(f)Systematic training, technical assistance, and ongoing standardized program evaluations are needed to ensure that all new state-funded trauma recovery centers are evidence-based, accountable, clinically effective, and cost effective.
(g)By providing assistance to the board in administering grants to trauma recovery
centers, it is the intent of the Legislature that these services will be delivered in a clinically effective and cost-effective manner, and that the victims of crime in California will have increased access to needed services.
SEC. 2.
Section 13963.1 of the Government Code is amended to read:13963.1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 3.
Section 13963.2 is added to the Government Code, to read:13963.2.
The Trauma Recovery Center at the San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, is recognized as the State Pilot Trauma Recovery Center (State Pilot TRC). The California Victim Compensation Board shall use the evidence-informed Integrated Trauma Recovery Services (ITRS) model developed by the State Pilot TRC when it selects, establishes, and implements Trauma Recovery Centers (TRCs) pursuant to Section 13963.1. All TRCs funded through the Restitution Fund or Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund shall do all of the following:(a)The board shall enter into an interagency agreement with the State Pilot Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) as the technical assistance provider to the board for the period between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2020. After June 30, 2020, and every two years thereafter, the board shall select a technical assistance provider through a competitive grant process. The technical assistance provider shall be a TRC that meets the requirements in subdivision (b) of Section 13963.1. The technical assistance provider may not be a new grant recipient.
(b)The technical assistance provider shall receive a grant of no more than four hundred thousand dollars
($400,000) per year from funds that may be appropriated by the Legislature from the Restitution Fund pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 13963.1. The technical assistance provider shall be allowed indirect costs that do not exceed 5 percent of the technical assistance grant award.
(c)The technical assistance provider shall do all of the following:
(1)Assist in the implementation of the Integrated Trauma Recovery Services (ITRS) model.
(2)Assist other TRCs by providing training materials, technical assistance, and ongoing consultation to enable the grantees to implement evidence-based and evidence-informed practices.
(3)Provide technical assistance to current TRC grantees. Assistance shall include, but not be limited to, staff training and development of the ITRS model as well as program capacity building for grantees.
(d)Any TRC grantee funded by the board shall be eligible to receive technical assistance.
(e)(1)The board shall not spend more than 5 percent of the total funds it receives from the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund on an annual basis for administrative costs.
(2)From the funds received from the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund and used for administrative costs, the board shall, through a competitive process and for a period not
to exceed three years, select and provide a grant for a third-party evaluator to conduct a review of the effectiveness of the trauma resource center model and the work done by grant recipients with trauma resource center funds.
(f)This section does not apply to the University of California unless the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make this section applicable.