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                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY
                         Senator Elaine K. Alquist, Chair            A
                             2005-2006 Regular Session               B

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          AB 100 (Cohn)                                               
          As Amended June 21, 2005 
          Hearing date:  June 28, 2005
          Health and Safety Code
          AA:mc

                                  DOMESTIC VIOLENCE  :  

                                DHS ADVISORY COUNCIL  


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          Source:  Author

          Prior Legislation: None

          Support: Unknown

          Opposition:None known

          Assembly Floor Vote:  N/A



                                         KEY ISSUE
           
          SHOULD THE JANUARY 1, 2006, SUNSET DATE FOR AN ADVISORY COUNCIL  
          UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES RELATING TO BATTERED WOMEN'S  
          SHELTERS BE EXTENDED TO 2010, AS SPECIFIED?


                                       PURPOSE
          
          The purpose of this bill is to extend the January 1, 2006,  
          sunset for an advisory council under the Department of Health  
          Services relating to battered women's shelters to 2010, as  
          specified.
          
           Current law  requires the Maternal and Child Health Branch of the  
          State Department of Health Services to administer a  
          comprehensive shelter-based services grant program to battered  
          women's shelters, as specified.  (Health and Safety Code   
          124250.)

           Current law  further requires that, in implementing this grant  
          program, the State Department of Health Services must consult  
          with an advisory council that shall remain in existence until  
          January 1, 2006.  (Id., subdivision (e).)

           This bill  would extend this sunset until January 1, 2010.





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                                      COMMENTS

          1.  Recent Amendments
           
          A completely different version of this bill was heard by the  
          Committee on June 7, 2005, when testimony was taken but the bill  
          was put over.  Subsequently, the author gutted and amended the  
          bill as is before the Committee today.  The provisions now in  
          this bill also were included in the author's AB 114, which was  
          heard and passed this Committee on June 14, 2005.

          2.  What This Bill Would Do
           
          As explained above, as recently amended this bill would extend,  
          from 2006 to 2010, the sunset date for an advisory council under  
          the Department of Health Services pertaining to the department's  
          shelter-based services grant program.


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