Bill Text: CA AB795 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 795 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Department of Housing and Community Development: housing bond programs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB795 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB795-Amended.html

Amended IN Assembly January 03, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 795

Introduced by Assembly Member Patterson

February 16, 2021

An act to amend Section 50408 of, and to add Sections 50408.5 and 50408.8 to, ~~and to add and repeal Section 50408.7 of,~~ the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 795, as amended, Patterson. Department of Housing and Community Development: housing bond programs.

Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and sets forth its powers and duties, including responsibility for administering various housing and home loan programs throughout the state. Existing law requires the department, on or before December 31 of each year, to submit an annual report containing specified information to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department.

This bill would require the department to include in those annual reports specified information relating to ~~grant-based programs administered by the department,~~ the CalHome Program and the Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Program, including the amount of the original awards to recipients, the portions not yet disbursed to recipients, and an estimate of how many individuals could benefit from the remaining balance.

This bill would require the department to take certain actions by January 1, ~~2022,~~ 2024, with respect to monitoring its housing bond programs, including developing, and implementing, a plan for performing onsite visits of CalHome Program recipients, determining the usability of the Consolidated Automated Program Enterprise System (CAPES) for the housing bond programs, and developing, and implementing, a long-term plan for the department to address instances when the department has exceeded its administrative spending limits.

This bill would, until January 1, 2025, require the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to monitor the department’s efforts, including the collection of performance reports, and to annually report to the Legislature.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 50408 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

50408.

(a) On or before December 31 of each year, the department shall submit an annual report to the Governor and both houses of the Legislature on the operations and accomplishments during the previous fiscal year of the housing programs administered by the department, including, but not limited to, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program and Community Development Block Grant activity.

(b) The report shall include all of the following information:

(1) The number of units assisted by those programs.

(2) The number of individuals and households served and their income levels.

(3) The distribution of units among various areas of the state.

(4) The amount of other public and private funds leveraged by the assistance provided by those programs.

(5) Information detailing the assistance provided to various groups of persons by programs that are targeted to assist those groups.

(6) The information required to be reported pursuant to Section 17031.8.

(7) (A) An evaluation, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, of any program established by the department pursuant to Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 987.001) of Chapter 6 of Division 4 of the Military and Veterans Code, including information relating to the effectiveness of assisted projects in helping veterans occupying any supportive housing or transitional housing development that was issued funds pursuant to that article.

(B) The evaluation shall include, but is not limited to, the following information:

(i) Performance outcome ~~data~~ data, including, but not limited to, housing stability, housing exit information, and tenant satisfaction, which may be measured by a survey, and changes in income, benefits, and education.

(I) For purposes of this paragraph, the term “housing stability” includes, but is not limited to, how many tenants exit transitional housing to permanent housing or maintain permanent housing, and the length of time those tenants spent in assisted units.

(II) For purposes of this paragraph, the term “housing exit information” includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(ia) How many tenants left assisted units.

(ib) The length of tenancy in assisted units.

(ic) The reason those tenants left assisted units, when that information is readily obtainable.

(id) The housing status of a tenant exiting an assisted unit upon exit when that information is readily available.

(ii) Client data, which may include, but is not limited to, demographic characteristics of the veteran and the veteran’s family, educational and employment status of the veteran, and veteran-specific ~~information~~ information, including, but not limited to, disability ratings, type of discharge, branch, era of service, and veterans affairs health care eligibility.

(8) An evaluation of any program established by the department to meet the legal requirements of the Federal Housing Trust Fund program guidelines.

(9) The information required to be reported pursuant to Section 50408.5.

SEC. 2.

Section 50408.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

50408.5.

~~For each grant-based program administered by the department,~~ For the CalHome Program established by Section 50650 and the Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Program established by Section 50860, the department shall report the following information in the annual report required pursuant to Section 50408:

(a) The amount of the original awards to recipients, the portions not yet disbursed to recipients, and an estimate of how many individuals could benefit from the remaining balance.

(b) Any extensions the department granted to the standard agreement and the number of, and reason for, those extensions.

(c) The total balance of all recipients’ reuse accounts, detailing the loan payments recipients are required to reissue for program purposes and an estimate of how many households could benefit from the balance.

(d) A description of the department’s monitoring ~~efforts, including the collection of performance reports and the results of the risk assessments and on-site monitoring.~~ efforts that includes the following:

(1) A summary of recipient performance reports. For recipients that have failed to timely submit performance reports, this summary shall include the number of delinquent reports from each recipient and the number of times the recipient has been delinquent in submitting reports.
(2) The results of risk assessments and onsite monitoring conducted by the department.
(3) An accounting of each recipient’s use of program funds.
(e) Recipients shall provide the department with all information necessary to prepare the report required by this section within a reasonable amount of time.

SEC. 3.Section 50408.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
50408.7.
(a)The Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency shall monitor the department’s efforts, including the collection of performance reports and the results of the risk assessments and on-site monitoring, and shall annually report to the Legislature on or before December 31 of each year.
~~(b)Every report to be submitted to the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.~~
~~(c)This section is repealed on January 1, 2025, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.~~

SEC. 4.SEC. 3.

Section 50408.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

50408.8.

By January 1, ~~2022,~~ 2024, the department shall do all of the following:

(a) Obtain all required performance reports for ~~its grant-based programs, including the CalHome Program and the Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Program,~~ the CalHome Program and the BEGIN Program, develop a plan for performing onsite visits of CalHome recipients, and begin performing onsite visits of CalHome recipients.

(b) Determine the usability of the Consolidated Automated Program Enterprise System (CAPES) for the housing bond programs and decide, based on that determination, whether management should enforce the use of CAPES by staff, and develop a plan to address the feasibility of continuing to develop CAPES.

(c) Develop, and begin implementing, a long-term plan for how the department will address instances when the department has exceeded its administrative spending limits and how the department will avoid exceeding the limits of the programs in immediate danger of exceeding spending limits. This subdivision shall not be construed to authorize the department to exceed its administrative spending limitations.