BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: July 1, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Nancy Skinner, Chair
SCR 29 (Liu) - As Amended: June 27, 2013
SENATE VOTE : 33-0
SUBJECT : California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month.
SUMMARY : Designates the month of November 2013 as California
Runaway and Homeless Youth Month and would recognize the need
for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local
governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway
and homeless youth in California. Specifically, this resolution
makes the following legislative findings:
1)The prevalence of runaways and homelessness among youth is
staggering, with studies suggesting that nationally between
1.6 and 2.8 million youth up to 24 years of age experience
homelessness every year; and it is estimated in California
there are 200,000 youth under 18 years of age, and thousands
more between 18 and 24, who are homeless for one or more days
each year.
2)An overwhelming majority of runaway and homeless youth have
been expelled from their homes by their families; physically,
sexually, and emotionally abused at home; discharged from
foster care and other state custodial systems without adequate
transitional plans; separated from their parents by death or
divorce; too poor to secure their own basic needs; and
ineligible or unable to access adequate medical or mental
health resources.
3)These youth are on the streets because they feel there are no
other options and many who live on the streets are victims of
physical abuse, sexual exploitation, and crime in untold
numbers.
4)Providing safe, stable, and permanent housing for runaway and
homeless youth is a family, community, state and national
priority; and the California Coalition for Youth has operated
the California Youth Crisis Line (1-800-843-5200), 24 hours a
day , seven days a week, for over 25 years as the state's only
emergency response system for youth.
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5)The future well-being of our state depends on the value we
place on our youth, and, in particular, on our actions to
provide the most vulnerable young people in the state with
opportunities to acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities they
need to find and maintain stable housing and develop into
healthy and productive adults.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800