Bill Text: CA AB2064 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State and local government: salary disclosure.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-31 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. Joint Rules 61(b)(15) and 62(a) suspended. (Page 5080.) Re-referred to Com. on G.O. [AB2064 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB2064-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2064	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Bass
  Members   John A. Perez   and Bass


                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

    An act to amend Section 50800.5 of the Health and Safety
Code,   An act to add Section 50802.6 to the Health and
Safety Code,  relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2064, as amended,  Bass   John A. Perez
 .  Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Account.
  Emergency Housing Shelter Operations Grant Account:
notice of funding availability. 
   Existing law establishes the Emergency Housing and Assistance
Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, that appropriates money to
the Department of Housing and Community Development for the purposes
of carrying out the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program.
Existing law , the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund
Act of 2006, requires the transfer of $50,000,000 from the proceeds
of bonds issued pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to
the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund for specified purposes
  requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to issue a notice or notices of funding availability to
potential applicants and designated local boards as soon as possible
after funding becomes available for the Emergency Housing and
Assistance Program  . 
   This bill would create within the Emergency Housing and Assistance
Fund the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Account. The bill
would require that all moneys deposited in the fund pursuant to the
Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006, and all
interest, dividends, and pecuniary gains from these moneys be
transferred to the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Account.
 
   This bill would require the Department of Finance to make a timely
determination as to the amount of General Fund moneys in the
Emergency Housing Shelter Operations Grant Account within the
Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund. The bill would require the
Department of Housing and Community Development to issue a notice of
funding availability to potential applicants and local boards, as
applicable, indicating the amount of General Fund moneys in the
Emergency Housing Shelter Operations Grant Account, as determined by
the Department of Finance, that is available for the shelter
operations program, no later than 30 days after the effective date of
the bill. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) In recent years, California has seen a substantial increase in
its homeless population as a result of the national economic
downturn.  
   (b) The state's homeless population includes many of our society's
most vulnerable, including children, emancipated foster youth, the
unemployed, families undergoing home foreclosure or other severe
financial stress, individuals with mental health and drug addiction
issues, and veterans (who make up approximately 20 percent of the
state's homeless population).  
   (c) The Department of Housing and Community Development, through
the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, awards facility
operations grants from the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund for
emergency shelters, transitional housing projects, and supportive
services to assist homeless individuals and families.  
   (d) It is critically important that these facility operations
grants be made available as soon as possible to fund the shelters,
projects, and services necessary to alleviate the unfortunate plight
of the many Californians who are currently homeless. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 50802.6 is added to the  
Health and Safety Code   , to read:  
   50802.6.  (a) For purposes of this section, the Department of
Finance shall make a timely determination as to the amount of General
Fund moneys in the Emergency Housing Shelter Operations Grant
Account within the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund.
   (b) No later than 30 days after the effective date of the act
adding this section, the Department of Housing and Community
Development shall issue a notice of funding availability to potential
applicants and local boards, as applicable, indicating the amount
specified in subdivision (a) that is available for the shelter
operations program.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 50800.5 of the Health and
Safety Code is amended to read:
   50800.5.  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund. Notwithstanding Section 13340
of the Government Code, all money in the fund is continuously
appropriated to the department to carry out the purposes of this
chapter. Any repayments, interest, or new appropriations shall be
deposited in the fund, notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the
Government Code. Money in the fund shall not be subject to transfer
to any other fund pursuant to any provision of Part 2 (commencing
with Section 16300) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code,
except to the Surplus Money Investment Fund.
   (b) All moneys in the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund,
created pursuant to Section 50800.5 as it existed prior to the
effective date of the act that adds this chapter, shall be
transferred, on the effective date of the act that adds this chapter,
to the Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund created by subdivision
(a).
   (c) The department may require the transfer of moneys in the
Emergency Housing and Assistance Fund to the Surplus Money Investment
Fund for investment pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section
16470) of Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the
Government Code. All interest, dividends, and pecuniary gains from
these investments shall accrue to the Emergency Housing and
Assistance Fund, notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government
Code.
   (d) (1) There is hereby created within the Emergency Housing and
Assistance Fund the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Account.

   (2) All moneys deposited in the Emergency Housing and Assistance
Fund pursuant to Part 12 (commencing with Section 53540) and all
interest, dividends, and pecuniary gains from these moneys shall be
transferred to the account created in paragraph (1).