BILL NUMBER: AB 1730	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Atkins and Eggman
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Olsen and Quirk)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Burke, Campos, Chiu,  Chu, 
Dodd,  Gallagher,  Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia,
Gonzalez,  and Mark Stone   Grove,  
Mark Stone,   and Williams  )

                        JANUARY 28, 2016

   An act to add and repeal Section 893.5 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to human trafficking.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1730, as amended, Atkins. Human trafficking: minors.
   Existing law proscribes the crime of human trafficking, as
defined. A person who causes, induces, or persuades, or attempts to
cause, induce, or persuade, a person who is a minor at the time of
commission of the offense to engage in a commercial sex act, with the
intent to effect or maintain a violation of any of specified sex
offenses, is guilty of human trafficking. Existing law also
proscribes the crime of prostitution.
   Existing law authorizes or requires, as specified, the probation
officer of a county to exercise various duties with respect to a
minor who has been found to be within the jurisdiction of the
juvenile court on the ground that he or she has violated a law or
statute, or that he or she has suffered, or there is a substantial
risk that he or she will suffer, abuse or neglect.
   Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community
Corrections to provide statewide leadership, coordination, and
technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and
partnerships in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice
system.
   This bill would, only until January 1, 2022, require the Board of
State and Community Corrections to establish a pilot project in each
of the Counties of Sacramento, San Diego, and  Santa Clara,
in which, if the county elects to participate in the pilot project,
the chief probation officer of the county would be required 
 Santa Clara. The bill would authorize each county that elects
to participate in the pilot project to determine whether that county'
s probation department or child welfare agency, or both, would
participate in the pilot project. The bill   would require
the department or agency, or both, selected by each county to
participate in the pilot project  to create a program to provide
services to youth within  his or her   that
county's  jurisdiction that  address  
addresses  the need for services relating to the commercial
sexual exploitation of youth. The bill would state that the purpose
of the pilot project is to test a service model that would produce
improved outcomes for youth victims of human trafficking. 
The bill would authorize the participating county to determine
whether the probation department, the county child welfare agency, or
both the probation department and the county child welfare agency
would participate in the pilot project.  The bill would also
require a county that establishes a pilot program pursuant to these
provisions to conduct at least one evaluation of the program's impact
and effectiveness and to submit that evaluation to the board. The
bill would provide that the pilot projects established pursuant to
these provisions would be funded contingent upon an appropriation in
the annual Budget Act. The bill would provide that funds appropriated
for these purposes shall be administered by the Board of State and
Community Corrections.
   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.  Section 893.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   893.5.  (a) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall
establish a pilot project in each of the Counties of Sacramento, San
Diego, and  Santa Clara, in which, if the county elects to
participate in the pilot project, the chief probation officer of the
county   Santa Clara. Each county   that elects
to participate in the pilot project may determine whether that
county's probation department or child welfare agency, or both the
county probation department and county child welfare agency, shall
participate   in the pilot project. The department or
agency, or both, selected by each county to participate in the pilot
project  shall create a program to provide services to youth
within  his or her  that county's 
jurisdiction that addresses the need for services relating to the
commercial sexual exploitation of youth. The purpose of the pilot
project is to test a service model that would produce improved
outcomes for youth victims of human trafficking.  The
participating county may determine whether the probation department,
the county child welfare agency, or both the probation department and
the county child welfare agency shall participate in the pilot
project. 
   (b) Programs that receive funding pursuant to this section shall
 be   utilize, for purposes of the program, only
facilities that are  licensed by the State Department of Social
 Services and  Services. Programs that receive
funding pursuant to this section  may include, but shall not be
limited to, programs that do the following:
   (1) Assess the youth victim's condition, including a review of the
extent of trauma suffered, physical and mental health, and the
status of age-appropriate developmental factors, such as educational
status.
   (2) Serve exploited youth in a services-rich environment,
including trauma-informed counseling services.
   (3) Research options, make recommendations, and work to find
solutions to provide specialized services and permanent placement
solutions for the youth.
   (4) Provide staff who are trained to work with, and experienced in
working with, child sex trafficking victims.
   (5) Include peer mentors in the design and provision of service
delivery.
   (6) Provide a plan for how to structure a protective setting
secluded from the victim's trafficking environment, which could
include strategies such as a geographically remote location, staff
protective presence, delayed egress, or any combination of strategies
intended to protect the victim.
   (c) A county that establishes a pilot program pursuant to this
section shall conduct at least one evaluation of the program's impact
and effectiveness. The evaluation shall include, but not be limited
to, monitoring the program's effect on youth being served, if any,
and its effectiveness with respect to program participants, including
outcome-related data for program participants compared to youth who
do not participate in the  pilot.   pilot
project.  The county shall submit the evaluation to the 
board.   Board of State and Community Corrections.

   (d) The pilot projects established pursuant to this section shall
be funded contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
Funds appropriated for these purposes shall be administered by the
Board of State and Community Corrections.
   (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2022, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2022, deletes or extends
that date.