BILL NUMBER: AB 2591 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 21, 2014
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 28, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Weber
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Skinner)
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) to Part
3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2591, as amended, Weber. Homeless youth: basic material needs
assistance.
Existing law establishes various public social services programs
to provide for protection, care, and assistance to
the people of the state in need of those services, by providing
appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed ,
including CalWORKs and CalFresh . Existing law establishes
homeless youth emergency service pilot projects in the Counties of
Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Clara, and San Francisco.
This bill would create the Homeless Youth Basic Materials
Material Needs Assistance Program and would
require that moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the purposes
of the program be allocated proportionally to counties by the State
Department of Social Services based on the number of homeless youth
in the county to be used to establish a program in the county
. The bill would authorize a county to join with one or
more other counties for the purpose of pooling their respective
allocations and establishing a program for those counties and would
also require the department to retain the moneys allocated to a
county and establish a program for that county if a county elects not
to establish a program or requests the department to administer its
program. The bill would require a county that elects
to establish a each program to solicit proposals
from and contract with nonprofit organizations for the purpose of
providing basic materials material
needs assistance to homeless youth in the county or counties
as directed by the county entity
administering the program and would require contracted
nonprofit organizations to consult with the county's
children and family commission of the county or
counties , as specified, if the county
entity administering the program elects to include homeless
youth from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive, in its program.
The bill would require the department to retain the moneys
allocated to a county and act in the place of a county if a county
elects not to establish a program or requests the department to
administer its program. The bill would enact other related
provisions.
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. Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) is added to
Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
CHAPTER 6.1. HOMELESS YOUTH BASIC MATERIAL NEEDS ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM
13710. This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs Assistance Program.
13712. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Administering entity" means one of the following:
(1) A county that elects to establish a program and does not join
with another county as described in subdivision (c) of Section 13714.
(2) The department, in the case of a county that elects not to
establish a program or requests the department to administer its
program.
(3) The counties that elect to establish a program jointly under
subdivision (c) of Section 13714.
(a)
(b) "Basic material needs assistance" means school
supplies, dental supplies and other hygienic products, shoes,
clothes, blankets, and other basic material needs.
(b)
(c) "Department" means the State Department of Social
Services.
(c)
(d) "Homeless" has the same meaning as that term is
defined in Section 11302 of Title 42 of the United States Code.
(d)
(e) "Nonprofit organization" means a nonprofit
corporation qualified to do business in California and qualified
under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
(e)
(f) "Program" means the Homeless Youth Basic Material
Needs Assistance Program.
13714. (a) From moneys appropriated by the
Legislature for the purpose of this chapter, the department shall
allocate a proportional amount to each county based on that county's
respective number of homeless youth. The moneys allocated to the
county shall be used to establish a Homeless Youth Basic Material
Needs Assistance Program for the county.
(b) If a county elects not to establish a program or requests the
department to administer its program, the department shall retain the
moneys allocated to the county pursuant to subdivision (a) and shall
directly administer a program for homeless youth in that county.
(c) A county may join with one or more other counties for the
purpose of pooling the allocations made to the counties under this
section and establishing a Homeless Youth Basic Material Needs
Assistance Program for those counties.
13716. (a) Each
county that elects to establish a program program
established under this chapter shall solicit
do all of the following:
(a) Solicit proposals from
nonprofit organizations for the purpose of providing basic material
needs assistance to homeless youth in the manner directed by the
county administering entity , subject
to any requirements imposed by this chapter.
(b) The county shall contract Contract
with one or more nonprofit organizations to participate in the
program based on the proposals solicited under subdivision (a).
Selection shall be based on the nonprofit organization's demonstrated
ability to meet the goals of the program, including, but not limited
to , an ability to form partnerships with local education
agencies (LEAs).
(c) The county shall require Require
each contracted nonprofit organization
contracted under subdivision (b) to do all of the following:
(1) Assist homeless youth through partnerships with LEAs, which
shall be formed to provide basic material needs assistance to
homeless youth.
(2) Give priority to providing school supplies and dental supplies
and other hygienic products to homeless youth.
(3) Consult with the county's children and
family commission of the county or counties served by the
program to determine how to best provide basic material needs
assistance to homeless youth from birth to 5 years of age, inclusive,
if the county administering entity
elects to include homeless youth of that age in its program.
(d) The county shall encourage Encourage
each contracted nonprofit organization
contracted under subdivision (b) to do both of the following:
(1) Provide at least a 20-percent match for all moneys received
from the county administering entity under
this chapter .
(2) Work with the homeless liaison or liaisons of each LEA
pursuant to the federal Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.), or his, her, or their LEA-employed
designee.
(e) If a county elects not to establish a program or a county
requests the department to administer its program, the department
shall retain the moneys allocated to the county pursuant to Section
13714 and shall directly administer a program for homeless youth in
that county and perform the tasks assigned to the county under this
section.