BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



                                                                  AB 826
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          Date of Hearing:   May 11, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    AB 826 (Atkins) - As Amended:  April 27, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Housing and 
          Community Development                         Vote: 7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill would require that cumulative information on programs 
          funded under the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Acts 
          of 2002 and 2006 be included in the Department of Housing and 
          Community Development's (HCD) annual report.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Minor costs to HCD to modify its database program to retabulate 
          data that it currently reports in other formats. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose.   According to the author, AB 826 would require the 
            current report issued by HCD to include more information on 
            the programs funded under the 2002 and 2006 Housing Bonds, 
            thereby improving oversight of those programs.

           2)Background.   In 2002, California voters approved Proposition 
            46, the $2.1 billion Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund 
            Act.  Proposition 46 provided funding for numerous housing 
            assistance programs.  Funds provided under Proposition 46 were 
            for the most part exhausted at the end of 2006.  In November 
            2006, California voters approved Proposition 1C, the Housing 
            and Emergency Trust Fund Act of 2006.  

           3)Annual report.   Under existing law, HCD is required to submit 
            an annual report to the governor and Legislature on the 
            operations and accomplishments of various programs it 
            administers.  The report is required to contain information 
            on: the number of units assisted by those programs; the number 








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            of individuals and households served and their income levels; 
            the distribution of units among various areas of the state, 
            the amount of other public and private funds leveraged by the 
            programs and information related to the extent to which 
            targeted programs were able to assist their intended groups. 

           4)Previous legislation  :  This bill is the same as SB 608 
            (Ducheny) of 2009, which was amended to another subject and SB 
            546 (Ducheny) of 2007, which died on the Assembly floor. 


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Roger Dunstan / APPR. / (916) 319-2081