Bill Text: CA AB2591 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Homeless youth: basic material needs assistance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-14 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2591 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2591-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2591	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 23, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Weber
   (  Coauthor:   Assembly Member 
 Skinner   Coauthors:   Assembly
Members   Buchanan,   Maienschein,   and
Skinner  )
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Hancock
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) to Part
3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
public social services.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2591, as amended, Weber. Homeless youth: basic material needs
assistance.
   Existing law establishes various public social services programs
to provide protection, care, and assistance to the people of the
state in need of those services, by providing appropriate aid and
services to the needy and distressed. Existing law establishes
homeless youth emergency service pilot projects in the Counties of
Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, and San Francisco.
   This bill would create the Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs
Assistance  Program and would   Program. This
bill would  require that moneys appropriated by the Legislature
for the purposes of the program be allocated proportionally 
to counties  by the State Department of Social Services 
to each county that elects to establish a program  based on the
number of homeless youth in the county  , which is  to be
used to establish  a   and operate the 
program in the county. The bill would authorize a county to join with
one or more other counties for the purpose of pooling their
respective allocations and establishing a program for those 
counties and would also require the department to retain the moneys
allocated to a county and establish a program for that county if a
county elects not to establish a program or requests the department
to administer its program.   counties.  The bill
would require each program to solicit proposals from and contract
with nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing basic
material needs assistance to homeless youth in the county or counties
as directed by the entity administering the program and would
require contracted nonprofit organizations to consult with the
children and family commission of the county or counties, as
specified, if the entity administering the program elects to include
homeless youth from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, in its
program. The bill would enact other related provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) is added to
Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 6.1.  HOMELESS YOUTH BASIC MATERIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM


   13710.  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs Assistance Program.
   13712.  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
   (a) "Administering entity" means one of the following:
   (1) A county that elects to establish a program and does not join
with another county as described in subdivision  (c)
  (b)  of Section 13714. 
   (2) The department, in the case of a county that elects not to
establish a program or requests the department to administer its
program.  
   (3) 
    (2)  The counties that elect to establish a program
jointly under subdivision  (c)   (b)  of
Section 13714.
   (b) "Basic material needs assistance" means school supplies,
dental supplies and other hygienic products, shoes, clothes,
blankets, and other basic material needs.
   (c) "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
   (d) "Homeless  youth  " has the same meaning as that term
is defined in Section  11302   11434a  of
Title 42 of the United States Code.
   (e) "Nonprofit organization" means a nonprofit corporation
qualified to do business in California and qualified under Section
501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
   (f) "Program" means the Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs
Assistance Program.
   13714.  (a) From moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the
purpose of this chapter, the department shall allocate a proportional
amount to each county  that elects to establish a program
pursuant to this chapter  based on that county's respective
number of homeless youth. The moneys allocated to the county shall be
used to establish  and operate  a Homeless Youth Basic
Material Needs Assistance Program for the county. 
   (b) If a county elects not to establish a program or requests the
department to administer its program, the department shall retain the
moneys allocated to the county pursuant to subdivision (a) and shall
directly administer a program for homeless youth in that county.
 
   (c) 
    (b)  A county may join with one or more other counties
for the purpose of pooling the allocations made to the counties under
this section and establishing a Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs
Assistance Program for those counties.
   13716.  Each program established under this chapter shall do all
of the following:
   (a) Solicit proposals from nonprofit organizations for the purpose
of providing basic material needs assistance to homeless youth in
the manner directed by the administering entity, subject to any
requirements imposed by this chapter.
   (b) Contract with one or more nonprofit organizations to
participate in the program based on the proposals solicited under
subdivision (a). Selection shall be based on the nonprofit
organization's demonstrated ability to meet the goals of the program,
including, but not limited to, an ability to form partnerships with
local education agencies (LEAs).
   (c) Require each nonprofit organization contracted under
subdivision (b) to do all of the following:
   (1) Assist homeless youth through partnerships with LEAs, which
shall be formed to provide basic material needs assistance to
homeless youth.
   (2) Give priority to providing school supplies and dental supplies
and other hygienic products to homeless youth.
   (3) Consult with the children and family commission of the county
or counties served by the program to determine how to best provide
basic material needs assistance to homeless youth from birth to 5
years of age, inclusive, if the administering entity elects to
include homeless youth of that age in its program.
   (d) Encourage each nonprofit organization contracted under
subdivision (b) to do both of the following:
   (1) Provide at least a 20-percent match for all moneys received
from the administering entity under this chapter.
   (2) Work with the homeless liaison or liaisons of each LEA
pursuant to  the federal Stewart B. McKinney Homeless
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.),   Section
11432(g)(1)(J)(ii) of Title 42 of the United States Code,  or
his, her, or their LEA-employed designee.