Bill Text: CA AB589 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Homeless youth: transitional housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2024-01-25 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. [AB589 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB589-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 589

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Introduced by Assembly Member Boerner Horvath

February 09, 2023

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An act relating to homelessness.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 589, as introduced, Boerner Horvath. Homeless youth: transitional housing.

Existing law, the Homeless Youth Act of 2018, requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to set and measure progress towards goals to prevent and end homelessness among youth in the state. Existing law establishes various homelessness assistance programs, some of which are administered by the State Department of Social Services and local partners, such as the Bringing Families Home Program, and certain others by the Department of Housing and Community Development and local partners, such as the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, which in part targets transitional housing. Existing law sets forth various provisions on the establishment of, or access to, homeless shelters.

Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates youth homelessness prevention centers as group homes, and transitional housing placement providers for purposes of operating transitional housing placement programs for minor foster children or nonminor dependents, as defined. Under existing law, transitional housing units include a host family, a staffed site, or a remote site for independent living, as specified.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a transitional housing program for homeless youth.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a transitional housing program for homeless youth.