BILL NUMBER: AB 683	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Atkins,   Hueso,   and Torres   )


                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) to Part
3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
homeless persons.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 683, as amended, Ammiano. Homelessness.
   Under existing law, various agencies administer programs for the
support of homeless persons.
   This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community
Development to create a  statewide Homeless Management
Information System   state deidentified homeless
integrated data warehouse  to compile data from collaborative
 agencies throughout California   agencies'
Homeless Management Information Systems  for the purpose of
developing a composite portrayal of the homeless population in the
state, as well as  the  services currently provided to
people who are homeless. The bill would also require the department
 , with the cooperation and collaboration of  
to cooperate and collaborate with  other specified agencies,
 as necessary,  to create a deidentified integrated 
research database   data warehouse  comprised of
specified information on the homeless population, the services
provided to them, and the annual costs of those services.
Implementation of the bill would be contingent upon sufficient
federal and private  sector  funds being received to
create the  Homeless Management Information System 
 homeless integrated data warehouse  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) is added to
Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 6.1.  HOMELESS  MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
  INTEGRATED DATA WAREHOUSE 


   13710.  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development
shall do both of the following: 
   (1) Create a statewide Homeless Management Information System to
compile data from collaborative agencies throughout California for
the purpose of developing a composite portrayal of the homeless
population in the state, as well as services currently provided to
people who are homeless.  
   (1) Create a state deidentified homeless integrated data
warehouse, in accordance with Strategy 1.2 of California's Ten Year
Chronic Homelessness Action Plan, to compile data from collaborative
agencies' Homeless Management Information Systems. This data
warehouse shall serve the purpose of developing a composite portrayal
of the homeless population in the state, as well as the services
currently provided to people who are homeless.  
   (2) With the cooperation and collaboration of each of the
following agencies, 
    (2)     Cooperate and collaborate with each
of the following state agencies, as necessary, to  draft and
carry out a strategy to create a deidentified integrated 
research database   data warehouse  comprised of
information from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,
the State Department of Education, the State Department of Health
Care Services,  the Department of Housing and Community
Development,  the State Department of Mental Health, the
State Department of Social Services, the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, to
provide longitudinal, cost-based studies  based on 
 to determine all of  the following information:
   (A) The number of people imprisoned each year who were homeless
upon arrest and the costs of their imprisonment.
   (B) The number of parolees experiencing homelessness each year and
the costs of their parole.
   (C) The number of children in California schools experiencing
homelessness.
   (D) Claims for Medi-Cal emergency department, hospital, and
nursing home services among people experiencing homelessness, and the
costs of those claims each year.
   (E) The number of children receiving foster care services whose
family members are homeless and the costs of the foster care provided
to those children each year.
   (F)  The   Relevant information  
regarding the  number of people who are homeless receiving
services, the costs of those services, and outcomes of those services
through the State Department of Mental Health, State Department of
Social Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, and State Department
of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
   (G) The number of people living in housing funded through programs
administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development
who were homeless upon admission. 
   (b) This section shall be implemented only when sufficient federal
and private sector funds have been received to create the Homeless
Management Information System.  
   (b) Local agencies providing services to homeless persons that use
a Homeless Management Information System are encouraged to
collaborate with the Department of Housing and Community Development
in developing the data warehouse pursuant to this chapter.  

   (c) This section shall be implemented only when sufficient federal
and private funds have been received to create the homeless
integrated data warehouse.