AB 2256, as amended, Maienschein. Homelessness: report.
Existing law provides for various programs to provide services for people who are homeless within the California Health and Human Services Agency.
This bill would require a homeless services provider to submit a report, as provided, to the California Health and Human Services Agency that contains specified data regarding homeless children or youth and homeless persons. The bill would define, among other things, a “homeless services provider” to mean a governmental or nonprofitbegin delete agencyend deletebegin insert providerend insert that receives federal, state, or county or municipal funding to provide services to homeless children or youth and homeless persons or that isbegin delete otherwise sanctionedend deletebegin insert
under contractend insert to provide those services by a local homeless continuum of care organization. The bill would require the data reported to the California Health and Human Services Agency to be published on the California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal.
By imposing new duties upon local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares both of the
2following:
3(a) The purpose of asking homeless services providers to submit
4the information required by this act is to develop a statewide
5database of information regarding homeless children or youth and
6homeless persons and the public services being used.
7(b) The data will enable state and local governments to develop
8better programs to target the needs of these individuals and utilize
9funding and other resources in the most efficient manner.
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8260) is added
11to Division 8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
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(a) On or before January 1, 2018, and on or before
16January 1 each year thereafter, a homeless services provider shall
17submit a report to the California Health and Human Services
18Agency that contains all of the following data for the previous
19calendar year regarding homeless children or youth and homeless
20persons:
21(1) The number of ambulance rides.
22(2) The number of hospital stays and length of each stay.
23(3) The number of emergency room visits.
24(4) The number of arrests and length of each incarceration.
25(5) The number of homeless children or youth and homeless
26persons using services provided by the homeless services provider.
P3 1(6) begin deleteCensus data. end deletebegin insertLatest estimate by a local agency in the area
2in which services are provided on the total number of homeless
3persons in that area, if available.end insert
4(b) The report shall be submitted in an open format that meets
5all of the following requirements:
6(1) Retrievable, downloadable, indexable, and electronically
7searchable by commonly used Internet search
applications.
8(2) Platform independent and machine readable.
9(3) Available to the public free of charge and without any
10restriction that would impede the reuse or distribution of the data,
11if applicable.
12(4) Retains the data definitions and structure present when the
13data was compiled, if applicable.
14(c) The data reported to the California Health and Human
15Services Agency shall be published on the California Health and
16Human Services Open Data Portal.
17(d) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
18be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government
19Code.
20(e) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions
21shall apply:
22(1) “Homeless children or youth” has the same definition as
23that term is defined in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
24Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.).
25(2) “Homeless persons” has the same definition as that termbegin delete inend delete
26begin insert isend insert defined in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42
27U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.).
28(3) “Homeless services provider” means a governmental or
29nonprofitbegin delete agencyend deletebegin insert
providerend insert that receives federal, state, or county
30or municipal funding to provide services to homeless children or
31youth and homeless persons or that isbegin delete otherwise sanctionedend deletebegin insert under
32contractend insert to provide those services by a local homeless continuum
33of care organization.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
35this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
36local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
37pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
384 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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