BILL NUMBER: AB 50	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 21, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 10, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 31, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 31, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 26, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 23, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 4, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 3, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Leno

                        DECEMBER 6, 2004

   An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 13974.5) to Part
4 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to
victims of crime, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the
urgency thereof to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 50, Leno  Victim compensation: trauma services.
   Statutory provisions that were repealed as of January 1, 2005,
authorized the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board to enter into an interagency agreement with the University of
California, San Francisco, to establish a victims of crime recovery
center at the San Francisco General Hospital to demonstrate the
effectiveness of providing comprehensive and integrated services to
victims of crime.
   This bill would make legislative findings about the effectiveness
of the services provided by the Trauma Recovery Center established as
a pilot project under these provisions. It would reauthorize this
interagency agreement for the purpose of actually providing these
services not just in a demonstration capacity. It would appropriate
for this purpose $1.3 million from the Restitution Fund to the board
for the 2006-07 fiscal year.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation: yes.


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


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Without treatment, approximately 50 percent of people who
survive a traumatic, violent injury experience psychological or
social difficulties. Untreated psychological trauma often has severe
economic consequences, including overuse of costly medical services,
loss of income, failure to return to gainful employment, loss of
medical insurance, and loss of stable housing.
   (b) The Trauma Recovery Center at San Francisco General
Hospital/University of California, San Francisco, is an
award-winning, nationally recognized program created in 2001 in
partnership with the State of California Victim Compensation and
Government Claims Board. The center was established as a four-year
pilot project to develop and test a comprehensive model of care as an
alternative to fee-for-service care reimbursed by victim restitution
funds. It was designed to increase access for crime victims to these
funds.
   (c) During the Trauma Recovery Center's four-year history, its
accomplishments include:
   (1) Identifying and treating 854 crime victims.
   (2) Increasing the rate by which sexual assault victims received
mental health followup services, from 6 percent to 71 percent.
   (3) Successfully linking 53 percent of patients to legal services,
40 percent to vocational services, 31 percent to safer and more
permanent housing, and 22 percent to other financial entitlements.
   (4) Improving cooperation with police, including an increase in
police reports filed by sexual assault victims from 42 percent to 71
percent.
   (5) Increasing return to employment by 56 percent of victims
compared to victims who did not have Trauma Recovery Center services.
Many of these people resumed paying taxes and escaped the spiral
into bankruptcy, loss of housing, and loss of medical insurance.
  SEC. 2.  Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 13974.5) is added to
Part 4 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 6.  Victims of Crime Recovery Center

   13974.5.  (a) The California Victim Compensation and Government
Claims Board shall enter into an interagency agreement with the
University of California, San Francisco, to establish a victims of
crime recovery center at the San Francisco General Hospital for the
purpose of providing comprehensive and integrated services to victims
of crime, subject to conditions set forth by the board.
   (b) This section shall not apply to the University of California
unless the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate
resolution, make this section applicable.
   (c) This section shall only be implemented to the extent that
funding is appropriated for that purpose.
  SEC. 3.  The sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars
($1,300,000) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2006, is hereby
appropriated from the Restitution Fund to the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board for the implementation of
the interagency agreement specified in Section 13974.5 of the
Government Code for the purpose of continued funding for the Trauma
Recovery Center at the San Francisco General Hospital.
  SEC. 4.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to ensure the uninterrupted provision of vital services
to victims of trauma, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.