Bill Text: CA AB67 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Homeless integrated data warehouse.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-08-30 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB67 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB67-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 67

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Introduced by Assembly Member Luz Rivas

December 03, 2018

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An act to add and repeal Section 8258 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 67, as introduced, Luz Rivas. Individuals or families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness: definition.

Existing law provides various housing and supportive services for individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and defines the terms “homeless” and “at risk of homelessness” for those purposes, as specified. Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California.

Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, establishes various programs and grants to provide a range of services to homeless individuals and families, and defines the terms “homeless,” “homeless individual,” and “homeless person” to mean, among other things, an individual or family who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence or an individual who resided in a shelter or place not meant for human habitation and who is exiting an institution where he or she temporarily resided.

This bill would require the coordinating council, in consultation with specified state entities, to develop, and recommend in a report to the Legislature, a standard definition of “homeless” and “at risk of homelessness” for purposes of providing programs and services to individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The bill would require the coordinating council, in developing the recommended definitions, to review and consider the existing definitions of those terms, as provided in state laws and regulations and the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 8258 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

8258.

 (a) The coordinating council, in consultation with state entities that provide programs and services to individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, shall develop, and recommend in a report to the Legislature, a standard definition of “homeless” and “at risk of homelessness” for purposes of providing programs and services to individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The coordinating council shall review and consider the existing definitions of those terms, as provided in state laws and regulations and the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11302), in developing the recommended definition of those terms.

(b) The report required to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(c) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2024.