BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 9, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
AB 1920 (Campos) - As Introduced: February 19, 2014
Policy Committee: Public
SafetyVote: 7-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill directs the Board of State and Community Corrections
(BSCC) to include job training and employment opportunities for
at-risk youth to its statutory responsibility to create
incentives for local governments to develop regional
partnerships to deliver services to target populations to
address delinquency prevention and crime intervention.
FISCAL EFFECT
No direct state cost as the bill merely adds job training and
employment opportunities for at-risk youth as examples of areas
in which local governments could pool grant funds to deliver
services.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . Sponsored by YouthBuild, this bill is an effort to
qualify YouthBuild for unspecified state and/or local funding.
The author and sponsor are in the process of attempting to
identify specific programs and funding sources to pursue.
2)YouthBuild is a national program in which low-income young
people work toward their GED or high school diploma while
learning job skills by building affordable housing for
homeless and low-income people. Emphasis is placed on
leadership development and community service. According to the
YouthBuild website:
YouthBuild program funds are distributed directly by the
federal government through a competitive process to local
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community-based organizations that run YouthBuild programs in
their neighborhoods. YouthBuild USA also must compete for a
national contract with the federal government to provide
training, technical assistance, and data management assistance
to the government's YouthBuild grantees. The U.S. Department
of Labor is the current managing federal agency. There are now
264 YouthBuild programs in 46 states. 120,000 YouthBuild
students have built 19,000 units of affordable housing since
1994. \
YouthBuild students are poor and many have had experience with
foster care, juvenile justice, welfare, and homelessness.
Participants spend 6 to 24 months in the full-time program,
dividing their time between the construction site and the
YouthBuild alternative school. Community- and faith-based
nonprofit organizations sponsor most programs, although some
are sponsored by public agencies. Each YouthBuild program
raises private and public funds to support itself.
3)Prior legislation .
a) AB 1387 (Solorio) required the California Emergency
Management Agency, to the extent funds are appropriated, to
establish a Youthful Offender Reentry competitive grant
program targeting offenders between 16 and 23 years of age
upon their release from a local county juvenile facility,
the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division
of Juvenile Facilities, probation, or parole. AB 1387 was
held on the Senate Committee on Appropriations' Suspense
file.
b) AB 2200 (Solorio), 2010, which established a similar
reentry program, was held on this committee's Suspense
File.
c) AB 1049 (Solorio), 2007, similar to AB 2200, was vetoed.
The governor stated, "?while this bill specifies that the
pilot program shall be created only to the extent that
funds are appropriated for that purpose, it provides no
funding for the actual administrative costs that will be
necessary for the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation to implement the program."
Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081
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