BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
AB 1883 (Cooley) - Child sexual abuse: prevention pilot program
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|Version: April 5, 2016 |Policy Vote: HUMAN S. 5 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: August 1, 2016 |Consultant: Debra Cooper |
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This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: AB 1883 would establish the Child Sexual Assault
Prevention Program as a pilot program in three counties,
selected by the California Department of Social Services (DSS),
to provide child sexual abuse prevention and intervention
services. It appropriates $50,000 annually from the General Fund
to each county for this purpose.
Fiscal
Impact:
Ongoing costs of $150,000 per year through 2019 to up to three
counties to fund the pilot programs. (GF)
Administrative costs to DSS of $60,000 ($30,000 GF) in fiscal
year 2016-17 and ongoing costs of $160,000 ($80,000 GF) per
year to develop criteria, select counties, execute funding
agreements, monitor and evaluate the pilot programs, and
fulfill reporting requirements.
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Background: According to data from the National Data Archive on Child
Abuse and Neglect and reported by the U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services Administration for Children and Families,
during FFY 2014, in California, there were over 3,600 reported
cases of children who were victims of sexual abuse. Commercial
sexual exploitation of children is a form of human trafficking
in which children under the age of 18 are coerced into engaging
in sexual acts for money, food, shelter, drugs, or other
economic reasons. The FBI's Innocence Lost National Initiative
has identified three California cities (Los Angeles, San Diego,
and San Francisco) as "high intensity child prostitution areas."
Existing law authorizes the Office of Child Abuse Prevention
(OCAP) within DSS to administer child abuse and neglect
prevention grants. Services provided under the grants are to be
coordinated with other programs serving children. OCAP provides
state oversight and allocates state and federal grants to
counties for child abuse prevention and treatment programs,
including, but not limited to, the following programs:
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) -
provides $4.4 million in "Federal funding to States in
support of prevention, assessment, investigation,
prosecution, and treatment activities and also provides
grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations,
including Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, for
demonstration programs and projects."
Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP) - funded
under CAPTA , allocates $3.1 million to counties "to
support community-based efforts to develop, operate,
expand, enhance, and coordinate initiatives, programs, and
activities to prevent child abuse and neglect."
Child Abuse Prevention Intervention and Treatment
(CAPIT) Program - provides state and local funds to match
requirements under the CBCAP program "to fund the
prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse in
California."
Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) Program
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- provides $14 million annually in state & federal funding
to provide "counties with funds for expenditures related to
the costs of implementing the program, prevention and
intervention services, and training related to children who
are victims of commercial sexual exploitation."
Proposed Law:
This bill would:
Establish the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program, a pilot
program in no more than three counties, selected by DSS, to
provide child sexual abuse prevention and intervention
services through public or private nonprofit programs that
provide child sexual abuse prevention and intervention
services.
Appropriate $50,000 from the General Fund to each county
selected.
Require DSS to select counties based on specified criteria.
Require that the funds appropriated under this section not
supplant or replace any existing funding for programs
currently serving the needs of at-risk children, but may only
supplement the expansion of existing programs, the
collaboration of separate existing programs within the county,
or fund newly created programs within the county if no current
programs exist.
Require the county board of supervisors of a participating
county to allocate pilot program funds according to the
provisions of this article.
Require public or private nonprofit agencies to submit
evidence, as specified, for demonstrating eligibility.
Require the administering agency, with the county board of
supervisors to include and integrate the pilot program in the
county system improvement plan, county self-assessments, and
the county plan for other federal and state child abuse
prevention programs.
Require each participating county to report, as specified, to
DSS, the Assembly Committee on Human Services, and the Senate
Committee on Human Services.
Sunset on January 1, 2020
Related
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Legislation: AB 883 (Cooley, 2014), similar to this bill, would
have established the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Program, a
child sexual abuse prevention pilot program, in three counties
selected by DSS and would have appropriated $50,000 annually
from the General Fund to each county for this purpose. This bill
was vetoed by Governor Brown. The Governor's veto message
stated, "While this bill is undoubtedly well intentioned, it
doesn't provide the criteria or funding necessary for counties
to participate or for the Department of Social Services to
conduct this pilot program. It may also duplicate efforts that
have just gotten underway with the passage of this year's budget
to combat and reduce the growing problem of commercial sexual
exploitation of children."
SB 855 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, Chapter 29,
Statutes of 2014) established the Commercially Sexually
Exploited Children Program, to be administered by the DSS in
order to adequately serve children who have been sexually
exploited. This bill requires DSS to develop a methodology to
distribute funding for the program and authorizes use of these
funds by counties electing to participate in the program for
certain prevention and intervention activities and services to
at-risk children.
Staff
Comments: Prior to fiscal year 2011-12, the state and counties
contributed to the non-federal share of various social service
programs, including CAPIT. AB 118 (Committee on Budget, Chapter
40, Statutes of 2011) and ABX1 16 (Blumenfield, Chapter 13,
Statutes of 2011) realigned state funding to the counties
through the 2011 Local Revenue Fund (LRF) for various programs,
including foster care, child welfare services, and CAPIT. As a
result, beginning in fiscal year 2011-12 and for each fiscal
year thereafter, non-federal funding and expenditures for CAPIT
activities have been realigned to the counties.
The 2014 Budget Act included $5 million General Fund in 2014-15
for a newly established Commercially Sexually Exploited Children
(CSEC) Program and $14 million General Fund annually thereafter,
to include statewide training, the development of local
protocols for addressing victims of exploitation, and
specialized services. While the provisions of this measure seek
to similarly provide prevention and intervention services to
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commercially sexually exploited children, this measure also
applies more broadly to all types of child sexual abuse, of
which CSEC is only one component.
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