Bill Text: CA AB2784 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: California State University: Emergency Student Housing Loan Program.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-25 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2784 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2784 |
| Introduced by Assembly Members Caballero and Arambula (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chiu) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Eduardo Garcia, Gray, Lackey, Rodriguez, and Steinorth) (Coauthors: Senators Galgiani and Nguyen) |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to add and repeal Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 89335) of Chapter 3 of Part 55 of Division 8 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to the California State University.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2784, as amended, Caballero.
California State University: Emergency Student Housing Loan Program.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education located throughout the state.
This bill would establish the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program, commencing with the 2019–20 academic year, at 3 campuses of the California State University, contingent upon the enactment of an appropriation of state funds for this purpose. This bill would define homeless and homelessness homeless, homelessness, and rapid rehousing for the
purposes of this article. Under the program, the 3 participating campuses of the university, as designated by the trustees, would establish an Emergency Student Housing Loan Program pursuant to which the participating campus would design a program enabling students at their campus who are experiencing an individual housing emergency, as specified, to receive a loan to pay for their housing that would either be short term, up to 3 months, or medium term, from 3 months to a maximum of 24 months. for up to 12 months. The bill would establish eligibility requirements and priorities for the selection of participating students.
The bill would require the trustees to submit a report, including specified information about the program, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of
the Legislature no later than June 30, 2022.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2023.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following:(1) According to the California State University (CSU), one in five CSU students experiences chronic hunger and one in 10 experiences homelessness.
(2) Research conducted at Stanford University found that state colleges like those within the CSU system offer the most proven pathways to upward social mobility, ensuring that individuals who graduate from the CSU have a higher likelihood of becoming self-sufficient and avoiding chronic homelessness.
(b) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would reduce the incidence of hunger and homelessness among college students in California.
SEC. 2.
Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 89335) is added to Chapter 3 of Part 55 of Division 8 of Title 3 of the Education Code, to read:Article 4.5. Emergency Student Housing Loan Program
89335.
(a) For the purposes of this article:(1) “Program” means the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program.
(2) “Homeless” is defined as means any of the following:
(A) An individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, and includes a subset for an individual who is exiting an institution where he or she resided for 90 days or less and who resided in an emergency shelter or a place not meant for human habitation immediately before entering that institution.
residence.
(B) An individual who will imminently lose their his or her primary nighttime residence.
(C) An individual who is fleeing, or is attempting to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, or other dangerous or life-threatening conditions relating to violence against the individual or a family member.
(3) “Homelessness” is defined as
means the state of being homeless, as defined in paragraph (2).
(4) “Rapid Rehousing” means a process to offer a student immediate, temporary assistance in order to help a student return to permanent housing, which may include, but is not limited to, housing search assistance, one-time financial assistance to offset move-in costs, ongoing financial assistance as needed to bridge the gap between family income and housing cost, and other supportive service or linkages to community resources to help a student develop the capacity to sustain housing stability.
(b) Contingent on the enactment of an appropriation of state funds,
funds for this purpose,
commencing with the 2019–20 academic year, three campuses of the California State University, as designated by the trustees, after consultation with the federal agency specified in subdivision (c), shall establish an Emergency Student Housing Loan Program pursuant to which a participating campus would design a program that would utilize “rapid rehousing,” as defined, rapid rehousing as a form of permanent housing support that would either be short term, up to 3 months, or medium term, from 3 months to a maximum of 24 months, housing support for up to 12 months
and that would enable students experiencing a housing crisis or emergency to receive a loan to pay for their housing for
either of those durations of time. during this time.
(c) The eligibility of a campus of the California State University for participation in this program is conditional on consultation by the participating campus with the regional United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care program.
(d) Payment for housing shall be administered directly by the campus to an entity constituting an identified long-term housing solution for all participating students.
each participating student. For purposes of this subdivision, long-term housing solutions a housing solution shall not include either of the following:
(1) A homeless shelter.
(2) A hotel. For purposes of this paragraph, “hotel” means a hotel, motel, bed and breakfast inn, or other similar transient lodging establishment, but it does not include a residential hotel as defined in Section 50519 of the Health and Safety Code.
(e) To qualify for participation in the program, a California State University student
shall comply with both of the following requirements:
(1) Be currently enrolled at a participating campus.
(2) Be able to demonstrate that he or she is undergoing an individual housing emergency. A student who is eligible to receive the federal Pell Grant, would be eligible to receive the federal Pell Grant, whether or not the student currently receives the grant, in combination with one of the following housing emergencies, shall be prioritized first, and in the following order:
(A) Currently experiencing homelessness.
(B) Experiencing loss of housing due to natural disaster at the student’s campus-based residence. place of residence while enrolled at a participating campus.
(C) Has a formal eviction action filed against him or her due to failure of payment, or for other financial reasons.
(f)It is the intent of the Legislature that the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program at each participating campus shall accommodate as many students in its program as is feasible in consideration of available funding.
(g)
(f) The support provided by a participating campus of the California State University to a student who participates in the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program shall include monthly meetings between the participating student and the appropriate campus professional staff member.
(h)Loans awarded to participating students
(g) A loan awarded to a participating student
shall be forgiven upon the recipient student’s successful completion of the completion of any academic semester or the equivalent during which the loan was awarded, student receives loan assistance, or at the discretion of the individual campus or Chancellor’s the chancellor’s office.
(h) In the event a loan is not forgiven, the campus shall determine the terms of loan repayment.
(i) The trustees shall submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature no later than June 30, 2022. The report shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following data:
(1) The number of students participating in the program in total, by campus, and disaggregated based on the following:
(A) Whether the student entered as a first-time freshman or a transfer student.
(B) Whether the student is a first-generation college student.
(C) Whether the student is a recipient of financial aid under the Federal Pell Grant Program (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070a) or under the Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program established in Chapter 1.7 (commencing with Section 69430) of Part 42 of Division 5.
(D) According to the student’s ethnicity.
(E) Whether the participating student’s family experienced some sort of homelessness.
(F) The age of the participating student at the beginning of the loan term.
(G) The gender with which the participating student identifies.
(2) The total number of
students who graduated after participating in the program, and disaggregated based on the characteristics identified in subparagraphs (A) to (G), inclusive, of paragraph (1).
(3) The total number of students who retained housing after participating in the program, and disaggregated based on the characteristics identified in subparagraphs (A) to (G), inclusive, of paragraph (1).
(j) Each campus that participates in the program shall receive funding upon the enactment of an appropriation for purposes of this article.
