BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE HUMAN
SERVICES COMMITTEE
Senator Leland Y. Yee, Chair
BILL NO: SB 602
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AUTHOR: Committee on Human Services
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VERSION: April 1, 2013
HEARING DATE: April 9, 2013
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FISCAL: No
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CONSULTANT: Mareva Brown
SUBJECT
Child abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment
projects
SUMMARY
This bill deletes the requirement that training and
technical assistance be provided to nonprofit agencies that
do Child Abuse Prevention Intervention and Treatment
(CAPIT) projects; deletes the requirement that unused CAPIT
funds be reverted to a state fund; deletes direction about
how to spend unused CAPIT funds that are reverted to the
state.
ABSTRACT
Existing law
1) Creates a state Office of Child Abuse and
Prevention to plan, improve, develop and carry out
programs and activities related to preventing,
identifying and treating child abuse and neglect. (WIC
18950)
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2) Directs counties to maximize funding to encourage
federal financial participation. (WIC 18960 (b))
3) Identifies priority populations for Child Abuse
Prevention, Intervention and Treatment projects
(CAPIT) funding, qualifications for providers, as
specified. (WIC 18691)
4) Requires that training and technical assistance be
provided by private, nonprofit agencies to those
agencies funded to provide CAPIT services and defines
that training and technical assistance, as specified.
(WIC 18691 (a) (7))
5) Requires that if a board of supervisors chooses not
to contract or subcontract for the provision of
services, the funds allocated for that county shall
revert to he State Children's Trust Fund, as
specified. (WIC 18962 (a))
6) Realigns state funding and oversight of the CAPIT
program to counties, pursuant to child welfare
realignment in 2012. (WIC 198960 and 18961)
This bill
1) Deletes the requirement for counties to fund and
provide training and technical assistance for agencies
that provide CAPIT services.
2) Deletes the requirement for counties to revert
unused CAPIT funds to the State Children's Trust Fund.
3) Deletes reference about how the state should
allocate unused CAPIT funds that have been reverted to
the State Children's Trust Fund.
FISCAL IMPACT
This bill has not been identified for referral to a fiscal
committee.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
Purpose of the bill
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In July 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 1013 (Chapter 35,
statutes of 2012), the child welfare trailer bill, which
realigned many child welfare functions to counties that had
been the responsibility of the state Department of Social
Services (DSS). Among those programs was the CAPIT program.
This bill cleans up language related to two requirements
that the state can no longer legally administer, as those
duties have been realigned.
One is the state requirement to mandate training and
technical assistance for local nonprofit organizations that
perform CAPIT functions. The other is the requirement to
revert unused county funds to the state, as well as
language directing the state how to spend those unused
funds.
CAPIT
In 1982, the state created the Child Abuse Prevention,
Intervention and Treatment Program (CAPIT), administered
through DSS, to fund projects in all 58 counties. The
program's intent was to encourage child abuse and neglect
prevention and intervention programs by funding agencies
that address the needs of children at high risk of abuse or
neglect, and their families. Funding for the program comes
solely from General Fund dollars, and is used to fulfill
federal Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention grant
matching and leveraging requirements.<1>
Realignment
In 2011-12 the Governor and Legislature realigned $1.6
billion in state funding for the child welfare system to
the counties, although it did not at that point change
state law related to the oversight of child welfare and
adoptions programs. A year later, in the 2012-13 budget
process, the legislature and Governor made a number of
statutory changes to align the funding shift with the
philosophy behind it. Those changes included additional
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<1> Office of Child Abuse Prevention, Department of Social
Services, 2009 fact sheet
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flexibility for counties to administer programs, a
re-examining of accountability and oversight functions,
technical changes, and others. Among the programs affected
were county foster care, adoptions programs and child abuse
prevention and treatment.
Related legislation
Budget bills and trailer bills in 2011, including AB 118
(Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011) and ABX1 16 (Chapter 13,
Statutes of 2011), realigned DSS funding for Adoption
Services, Foster Care, Child Welfare Services, and Adult
Protective Services, and programs from the state to local
governments and redirected specified tax revenues to fund
this effort. The realignment moved programs and fiscal
responsibility to the level of government considered to be
best poised to provide the services, while eliminating
duplication of effort at the state level, thus generating
savings, and increasing flexibility.
SB 1013, (Chapter 35, statutes of 2012), realigned many of
the functions that had been the state's responsibility, to
correspond with the funding changes that had been made in
2011.
Comments
Current language could be interpreted to add a requirement
that the state authorize the county board of supervisors to
participate in a fund for statewide training. That
authorization is unintentional.
Staff suggests the following amendment:
(f) A portion of the funds specified in subdivision (c) may
be allocated to the State Children's Trust Fund to be used
for statewide training and technical assistance services.
Moneys for statewide training and technical assistance may
be supplemented under subdivision (a) by an amount not to
exceed 0.50 percent of the total Child Abuse Prevention,
Intervention, and Treatment appropriation but the total
amount allocated statewide for training and technical
assistance shall not exceed 2 percent of the total Child
Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment
appropriation. This augmentation may be accomplished by
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authorizing To accomplish this augmentation, the board of
supervisors of each participating county to may allocate
annually a portion of its allocation under this section as
a supplement to funds for statewide training and technical
assistance. Activities to be funded with these supplemental
moneys may be specified by the allocating county and
approved by the State Department of Social Services.
POSITIONS
Support: American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO
Oppose: None received
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