Bill Text: CA SB981 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Veterans: homelessness.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB981 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB981-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 981 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Nielsen
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
An act to amend Section 987.005 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 981, as introduced, Nielsen. Veterans: homelessness.
Existing law, the Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond
Act of 2014, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of
$600,000,000, as specified, for expenditure by the California Housing
Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development,
and the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide multifamily
housing to veterans pursuant to the Veterans Housing and Homeless
Prevention Act of 2014 (VHHPA). Existing law requires the departments
to establish and implement programs that focus on veterans at risk
for homelessness or experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness,
as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 987.005 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
987.005. (a) The departments shall establish and implement
programs pursuant to for the purposes
of this article that focus on veterans at risk for homelessness or
experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness. To the extent
feasible, the departments shall establish and implement programs
that, among other things, do the following:
(1) Leverage public (federal, state, and local), private, and
nonprofit program and fiscal resources.
(2) Prioritize projects that combine housing and supportive
services, including, but not limited to, job training, mental health
and drug treatment, case management, care coordination, or physical
rehabilitation.
(3) Promote public and private partnerships.
(4) Foster innovative financing opportunities.
(5) Ensure program guidelines and terms provide threshold
requirements or scoring criteria, or both, to advance applicants with
experience in combining permanent or transitional housing, or both,
with supportive services for veterans, or for partnering with housing
developers or service providers with experience offering housing or
services to veterans.
(b) The departments shall ensure at least 50 percent of funds
awarded for capital development under this article provide housing to
veteran households with extremely low incomes, as defined in Section
50106 of the Health and Safety Code.
(1) In determining whether a potential tenant is eligible for
supportive, affordable, or transitional housing targeted to extremely
low income households under this provision,
subdivision, eligibility shall take into consideration all of a
household's income sources upon initial tenancy.
(2) At least 60 percent of units funded targeting extremely low
income households shall be supportive housing.
(3) This section shall not deter the departments from funding
projects serving mixed-income populations.
(c) The departments may review, adopt, amend, and repeal
guidelines or terms, or both, to implement this article. Any
guidelines Guidelines or terms adopted to
implement this article shall not be subject to Chapter
the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of
the Government Code. Code).
(d) Nothing in this article permits the departments or the board
to purchase, operate, or manage properties except in the event of a
foreclosure on a borrower or grantee.
