Bill Text: CA SB636 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Homeless youth: basic material needs assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB636 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB636-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 636 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JANUARY 4, 2016
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 23, 2015
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 7, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Senator Liu
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Weber)
(Coauthors: Senators Hancock, Wieckowski, and Wolk)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla, Bonta, Calderon, Campos,
Chiu, Dodd, Frazier, McCarty, and Santiago)
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
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
SB 636, as amended, Liu. 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. This bill would require that
require, from moneys appropriated by the Legislature
Legislature, as specified, for the purposes of
the program be allocated proportionally by
program, the State Department of Social Services to
each county program based on the number of homeless youth in the
county. The bill would authorize a county to establish the program or
request the department to administer the program, in which case the
department would be required to retain the county's proportional
share of funds and directly administer a program in that 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. establish
and operate a Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs Assistance Program
for homeless youth in California. The bill would require
each program the department 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.
department. The bill would require contracted nonprofit
organizations to, among other things, provide a minimum of
25% 100% matching funds, as specified. The bill
would require each contracted nonprofit organization to
prepare a report for the administering entity
department including, among other information, the number of
homeless youth assisted. The bill would require the
department, require, after the program has been
operating for 3 years, to issue each
contracted nonprofit organization to issue and provide to the
department, and the department to collect and issue, a report
including, among other information, the number of homeless youth
assisted each year, and a description of the assistance provided.
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. The Legislature finds and declares
that it is the intent of the Legislature that funds appropriated
by the Legislature for this program act
not exceed an average allocation of twenty-five dollars and
twenty cents ($25.20) per pupil, with the assumption of a
participation rate of not more than 297,619 homeless youth, or the
number from the most recent count of homeless youth, whichever is
lesser. five million dollars ($5,000,000) each year.
SEC. 2. 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) "Additional material needs assistance" means clothes,
blankets, and access to shelter.
(b) "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 (b) of Section 13714.
(2) A county designated as the lead county, if two or more
counties elect to establish a program jointly under subdivision (b)
of Section 13714.
(3) The department, if a county declines to establish a program or
requests the department to administer the program.
(c)
(a) "Basic material needs assistance" means school
supplies, dental supplies and other hygienic products, shoes, socks,
and underwear. This shall not include any electronic items
except a data storage device that includes flash memory with an
integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface.
(d)
(b) "Department" means the State Department of Social
Services.
(e)
(c) "Homeless youth" has the same meaning as that term
is defined in Section 11434a of Title 42 of the United States Code.
(f)
(d) "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.
(g)
(e) "Program" means the Homeless Youth Basic Material
Needs Assistance Program.
13714. (a) From moneys appropriated by the Legislature from
the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant
for the purpose of this chapter, the department shall
allocate a proportional amount to each county 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 homeless youth in that county.
California.
(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 program for those counties.
(c) If a county declines to establish a program or requests the
department to administer the program, the department shall retain the
county's proportional share of funds and shall directly administer a
program for homeless youth in that county, including contracting
with a nonprofit and performing all duties set forth in this chapter.
(b) No more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) shall be
appropriated in a single year to fund this program. TANF funds
appropriated to counties for the purposes of administrating the
CalWORKs program, food assistance, or housing shall not be
reallocated for purposes of this program. The program shall not
provide vouchers, cash aid, or other forms of currency to homeless
youth.
13716. Each administering entity The
department 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,
department, subject to the requirements imposed by this
chapter.
(b) Select and contract with one or more nonprofit organizations
to participate in the program based on the proposals solicited under
subdivision (a). Selection of a nonprofit organization shall be based
on the following criteria:
(1) Demonstrated ability to form partnerships with local
educational agencies (LEAs).
(2) Demonstrated ability to provide basic material needs
assistance to homeless or low-income youth by working with LEAs.
(3) Ability to work with the homeless liaison of each LEA pursuant
to Section 11432(g)(1)(J)(ii) of Title 42 of the United States Code,
or his or her LEA-employed designee.
(4) Demonstrated ability to generate additional matching funds or
in-kind resources for similar programs.
(c) Require each nonprofit organization contracted under
subdivision (b) to do all of the following:
(1) Notify the homeless liaison of a county office of education of
the organization's intent to enter into new partnership agreements
with the LEAs in that county.
(2) Form or maintain partnerships with LEAs for the purpose of
providing basic material needs assistance to homeless youth.
(3) Notify the homeless liaison of a county office of education
each time a basic material needs assistance program commences or is
renewed.
(4) Provide basic material needs assistance to homeless youth,
giving first priority to hygiene, dental, and school supply needs.
A nonprofit organization may use other resources or
demonstrated savings to provide additional material needs assistance.
(5) Provide at least a 25-percent
100-percent match for all moneys received from the
administering entity department under this
chapter. If the nonprofit organization provides in-kind materials
toward the 25-percent 100-percent
match, the value of the in-kind materials contributing to a
25-percent 100-percent match shall be verified
by the donor of the materials and shall not exceed the market value
of the materials if sold at retail. Any amounts provided by
the nonprofit organization that exceed the 25-percent match
constitute demonstrated savings that may be used in accordance with
paragraph (4).
(6) Consult with the children and families commission of
the county or counties each county served by the
program to determine how to best provide basic material needs
assistance to homeless youth from birth to five years of age,
inclusive, if the administering entity
department elects to include homeless youth of that age in its
program.
(7) Following each distribution cycle, each contracted
nonprofit shall prepare a report for the
administering entity. department. The report
shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:
(A) The number of homeless youth assisted.
(B) The locations of the distributions.
(C) The date or range of dates of distributions.
(D) Descriptions of the materials distributed.
(E) A letter from each LEA, shelter, or other partnering entity,
verifying the information submitted pursuant to subparagraphs (A)
through to (D), inclusive.
(F) Original Copies of original
letters from all donors contributing any in-kind materials counting
toward the required match.
13718. After three years of operation of the program, each
contracted nonprofit shall issue and provide to the department, and
the department shall issue collect and
issue, a simplified report including the following information:
(a) The number of homeless youth assisted each year.
(b) A description of the assistance provided.
(c) The total match leveraged and the match leveraged by
each county. leveraged, including the accounting of
the match over the three-year period.
(d) A scanned or paper copy of the original letters from each LEA
or other partner, as described in paragraph (7) of subdivision (c) of
Section 13716.
(e) Any significant achievements in absenteeism reduction,
improved academic outcomes, improved living or social outcomes, and
any other significant improvements.
