BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 602| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONSENT Bill No: SB 602 Author: Senate Human Services Committee Amended: 4/1/13 Vote: 21 SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE : 6-0, 4/9/13 AYES: Yee, Berryhill, Emmerson, Evans, Liu, Wright SUBJECT : Child abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment projects. SOURCE : Author DIGEST : 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, and deletes direction about how to spend unused CAPIT funds that are reverted to the state. ANALYSIS : 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. 2.Directs counties to maximize funding to encourage federal CONTINUED SB 602 Page 2 financial participation. 3.Identifies priority populations for Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention and Treatment projects (CAPIT) funding, and qualifications for providers, as specified. 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. 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 the State Children's Trust Fund, as specified. 6.Realigns state funding and oversight of the CAPIT program to counties, pursuant to child welfare realignment in 2012. 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. Background In July 2012, Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 1013 (Budget Committee, 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 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 CONTINUED SB 602 Page 3 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. 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 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 (Budget Committee, Chapter 40, Statutes of 2011) and ABX1 16 (Blumenfield, 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 CONTINUED SB 602 Page 4 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, realigned many of the functions that had been the state's responsibility, to correspond with the funding changes that had been made in 2011. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 4/11/13) AFL-CIO AFSCME JG:ej 4/11/13 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED