BILL NUMBER: SB 1084	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 2, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 24, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 1, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 29, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 15, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 23, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Liu
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Jones)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  V. Manuel Perez, 
   Salas,   
 and Block   Beall,   Block,  
Hall,   V. Manuel Perez,   and Salas  )

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act relating to poverty.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1084, as amended, Liu. California Economic Security Task Force.

   Existing law establishes various social service programs that
provide cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income
families and individuals.
   This bill would establish, upon a specified finding by the
Department of Finance regarding funding, until July 1, 2013, the
California Economic Security Task Force, composed and appointed as
prescribed. This bill would require the task force to hold its first
meeting before July 1, 2011. The task force would be required to
submit to the Governor  and   , to relevant
Committees of  the Legislature, and make available to the
public, both an interim and a final report containing specified
information and recommendations.
   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.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the
California Economic Security Act of 2010.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
   (a) According to the California Budget Project, more than 5.3
million, or 14.6 percent, Californians had incomes below the federal
poverty line in 2008, a significant increase from 4.6 million, or
12.7 percent, in 2007. Furthermore, California's 2008 poverty rate
was 1.4 percentage points higher than the national rate.
   (b) According to the report entitled "Overlooked and Undercounted
2009: Struggling to Make Ends Meet in California," three in 10
nonelderly California households lack enough income to meet their
basic needs expenses.
   (c) According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and
the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, nearly 495,000
elders living alone in California in 2007 could not cover their
basic needs expenses.
   (d) It is a goal of the Legislature to move 50 percent of
Californians with income below the federal poverty line towards
economic security by 2020 by moving them toward or above the county-
and family-specific thresholds of the income necessary to cover basic
needs expenses, provided by the California Family Economic
Self-Sufficiency Standard Index and the California Elder Economic
Security Standard Index.
  SEC. 3.  (a) Upon a positive determination as described in
subdivision (j), there is hereby established the California Economic
Security Task Force.
   (b) The task force shall consist of the following 13 members:
   (1) Two Members of the Senate, or their designees, at least one of
whom must be a member of the minority party, appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules.
   (2) Two Members of the Assembly, or their designees, at least one
of whom must be a member of the minority party, appointed by the
Speaker of the Assembly.
   (3) A representative from the County Welfare Directors
Association.
   (4) Two individuals who represent business interests operating in
this state, one of whom shall represent large business and be
appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules and one of whom shall
represent small business and be appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly.
   (5) Four individuals who represent nongovernment entities that
provide benefits, services, or advocacy to people, including women,
children, youth, seniors, working families, and the homeless, living
in poverty, appointed by the Governor.
   (6) Two individuals  who have household incomes below the
Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard Index or the Elder Economic
Security Standard Index  , one of whom shall represent a
rural area and be appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly and one of
whom shall represent an urban area and be appointed by the Senate
Committee on Rules.  One of these individuals shall have a
household income below the Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard
Index, and the other individual shall have a household income below
the Elder Economic Security Standard Index. 
   (c) The task force shall be cochaired by a member of the small
business community and a representative of the County Welfare
Directors Association of California.
   (d) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services and the
Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development, or designated
representatives, may participate in the task force as nonvoting
members.
   (e) Upon a positive determination as described in subdivision (j),
all appointments shall be made and the task force shall hold its
first meeting before July 1, 2011. The task force shall meet at least
quarterly, at a time and location the task force deems appropriate
and convenient to the public. All meetings of the task force shall be
open to the public.
   (f) A majority of the currently serving task force members shall
constitute a quorum. The task force may meet in the absence of a
quorum. The task force shall strive to operate by consensus, but may
adopt recommendations by majority vote of the members present in any
meeting that a quorum is present.
   (g) The task force shall submit to the Governor and  the
Legislature   relevant committees of the Legislature,
including, but not limited to, the Senate Committee on Business,
Professions and Economic Development, the Assembly Committee on Jobs,
Economic Development, and the Economy, and the Senate and Assembly
Committees on Human Services  , and make available to the
public, an interim report on or before April 1, 2012, and a final
report on or before April 1, 2013. The interim and final reports
shall be prepared solely with private funds and shall make use of
existing data. In order to keep costs down, state agencies and
departments shall, to the extent that the information is available,
make reports and data electronically available.
   (1) As part of its deliberations in preparing the interim and
final reports, the task force shall do both of the following:
   (A) Review in detail current rates of economic security for each
county in California. For purposes of this act, "economic security"
means having the income necessary to cover basic needs expenses,
among Californians at the family and county level, as defined by the
California Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard Index and the
California Elder Economic Security Standard Index. The California
Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard Index and the California
Elder Economic Security Standard Index provide a county- and
family-specific threshold of the income necessary to cover basic
needs expenses.
   (B) Seek input from other outside groups, organizations, and
individuals.
   (C) Consider the actions and recommendations of other states'
plans relating to poverty reduction workforce development and
entrepreneurship, as it deems appropriate.
   (2) The interim report shall do all of the following:
   (A) Provide specific recommendations that could be implemented
beginning in 2012 to maximize the effectiveness of state programs and
services for both the immediate and short-term timeframes, to help
increase the economic security of all Californians by moving 50
percent of Californians with incomes below the federal poverty level
toward or above the California Family Economic Self-Sufficiency
Standard Index and the California Elder Economic Security Standard
Index thresholds by 2020. The recommendations shall include an
implementation plan with key milestones, and an estimate of program
costs or savings and of the number of individuals who would benefit
from the proposal.
   (B) Provide an inventory of  state  programs
targeted at increasing individual and family economic security and
reducing poverty. The following information shall be provided for
each  state  program, including, but not limited to:

   (i) The budget and funding sources for the program.
   (ii) The program's eligibility criteria and process.
   (iii) The number and demographic profile of clients served by the
program.
   (iv) Services the program offers.
   (v) Other  state and local government  entities
involved in planning and administering the program.
   (vi) The linkages among the poverty reduction, self-sufficiency
programs, workforce development, and entrepreneurship programs  ,
such as an on-the-job training program developed by a local
workforce investment board for recipients of welfare-t  
o-work employment services under the CalWORKs program  .
   (vii) The metrics and methodology used by each program to collect
data and to establish and measure baselines and outcomes.
   (3) The final report shall do all of the following:
   (A) Provide specific long-term recommendations that will increase
the effectiveness of the state's efforts to increase economic
security of all Californians by moving 50 percent of Californians
with incomes below the federal poverty level toward or above the
California Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard Index and the
California Elder Economic Security Standard Index thresholds by 2020.
The recommendations shall be politically viable, fiscally
responsible, shall include an implementation plan with key
milestones, an estimated impact of regional economies, and an
estimate of program costs or savings and of the number of individuals
who would benefit from the proposal.
   (B) Provide specific recommendations on how to create a
self-sustaining entity to lead and coordinate the state's efforts to
increase economic security of Californians by moving 50 percent of
Californians with incomes below the federal poverty line to cover
basic needs and expenses, as identified in the Self-Sufficiency
Standard or the Elder Economic Security Standard Index by 2020,
including, but not limited to, the following recommendations:
   (i) The appropriate structure of the entity.
   (ii) The needed funding and funding sources for the entity.
   (iii) The necessary statutory changes to create the entity.
   (h) Members of the task force shall serve without compensation,
but shall be entitled to reimbursement for their actual travel costs
to attend meetings, if the task force has sufficient funding for this
purpose.
   (i) The task force shall seek funding, technical assistance, staff
support, and other resources from philanthropic and private
donations, but shall not accept any support that would pose a
conflict of interest or be inconsistent with the task force's goals
and objectives.
   (j) The task force shall be established in the executive branch
and shall convene only upon a determination by the Department of
Finance that private donations in an amount sufficient to fully
support the activities of the task force have been deposited with the
state.
   (k) This act shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2013, and
as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is
chaptered before July 1, 2013, deletes or extends that date.