BILL NUMBER: SB 1338	CHAPTERED  09/29/00

	CHAPTER   847
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 28, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 27, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Figueroa
   (Principal coauthors:  Assembly Members Cardenas, Cunneen, and
Honda)
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Corbett)

                        JANUARY 6, 2000

   An act to amend Section 18993.8 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1338, Figueroa.  Health:  youth pregnancies:  Community
Challenge Grant Program:  evaluation.
   Existing law establishes the Community Challenge Grant Program,
administered by the State Department of Health Services, in order to
provide community challenge grants to reduce the number of teenage
and unwed pregnancies.  The provisions of this program require the
department to conduct a statewide evaluation of the program and
submit its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 1999.

   This bill would revise the required contents of the statewide
evaluation, and would delete the January 1, 1999, deadline for
submission to the Legislature, requiring instead that the department
submit its findings to the Legislature within 6 months of the
completion of each grant cycle.  It would provide, however, that the
evaluation would be performed only when funds are appropriated in the
annual Budget Act for this purpose.  The bill would provide that it
shall become operative only if AB 878 of the 1999-2000 Regular
Session is enacted.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
   (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce the number of
unwed and teenage pregnancies in California.
   (b) Preliminary evaluations of the Community Challenge Grant
Program, administered by the State Department of Health Services,
indicate that the program has succeeded in the development of
innovative strategies, has contributed to agency collaboration, and
has served over 200,000 Californians.
   (c) Regular program evaluations will provide the necessary
information to ensure that the Community Challenge Grant Program
effectively achieves its stated outcomes.
  SEC. 2.  Section 18993.8 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   18993.8.  The department shall conduct a statewide independent
evaluation of the program, assessing the program's effectiveness in
achieving stated outcomes as established by the department.  The
department shall submit its findings from the evaluation to the
Legislature within six months of the completion of each grant cycle.
The evaluation shall be performed only when for this purpose funds
are appropriated in the annual Budget Act.
  SEC. 3.  This act shall become operative only if Assembly Bill 878
of the 1999-2000 Regular Session is enacted.