BILL NUMBER: AB 2043	CHAPTERED  09/12/02

	CHAPTER  494
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 12, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 19, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 14, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salinas
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Alquist and Florez)

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2002

   An act to amend Section 50517.10 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2043, Salinas.  Farmworker housing.
   The existing Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program
requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to make
grants from the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Fund, for
specified purposes, and authorizes grants and loans to be made from
the fund for other purposes.  One of the purposes for which grants
and loans may be made is to directly rent or lease housing for
short-term occupancy by migrant farmworker households.
   This bill would limit the authorization for the making of grants
and loans for this purpose only to instances where the department
determines that there are extraordinary or emergency circumstances.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 50517.10 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   50517.10.  In addition to the purposes specified in subdivision
(a) of Section 50517.5, the department may make grants and loans
under the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program to local
public entities and nonprofit corporations in order to establish
capitalized operating reserves for short-term occupancy housing for
migrant farmworker households, purchase land for, and construct,
housing structures for short-term occupancy by migrant farmworker
households, lease or purchase existing structures for short-term
occupancy by migrant farmworker households, and, where the department
determines that extraordinary or emergency circumstances exist,
directly rent or lease housing for short-term occupancy by migrant
farmworker households.