BILL NUMBER: AB 683 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 13, 2011
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 state deidentified
homeless integrated data warehouse to compile prescribed
data from collaborative 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 to cooperate and collaborate with other specified
agencies, as necessary, to create a deidentified
an integrated data warehouse comprised of specified
information on the homeless population, the services provided to
them, and the annual costs of those services and would require
participating agencies to submit data at least quarterly .
The bill would require the department to facilitate the creation of
a users' group to ensure quality, relevance, and appropriate access
to integrated data, as specified. Implementation of the bill
would be contingent upon sufficient federal and private funds being
received to create the 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 INTEGRATED DATA WAREHOUSE
13710. (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development
shall do both all of the following:
(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
. or who are at risk of becoming homeless and
who are receiving prevention services. Information compiled shall
include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
(A) Basic demographic information about people experiencing
homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness.
(B) If available, demographic information should include ethnic
and racial identity and information based on sexual orientation,
gender identity, and gender expression.
(C) The number of individuals with disabilities and the number of
families with a head of household experiencing a disability who have
been homeless for at least one year or at least four times in the
last three years.
(D) Homeless individuals' access to benefits.
(E) The number of individuals and families experiencing
homelessness.
(F) The number and entry and exit dates of individuals and
families living in emergency housing.
(G) The number and entry and exit dates of homeless individuals
and families living in transitional housing.
(H) The number and entry and exit dates of homeless individuals
and families living in permanent housing.
(I) Last known location or ZIP-code when housed.
(J) Stated reasons for homelessness.
(K) Disability status of people experiencing homelessness.
(L) Veteran status of people experiencing homelessness.
(M) If available, the number of unaccompanied youth experiencing
homelessness.
(2) Cooperate and collaborate with each of the following state
agencies, as necessary, to draft and carry out a strategy to create
a deidentified an integrated 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 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 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)
(C) Claims for Medi-Cal emergency department, hospital,
and nursing home services among people experiencing homelessness,
and the costs of those claims each year.
(E)
(D) 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)
(E) 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)
(F) The number of people living in housing funded
through programs administered by the Department of Housing and
Community Development who were homeless upon admission.
(3) Facilitate the creation of a users' group to ensure quality,
relevance, and appropriate access to integrated data. This group
should include, but not be limited to, a minimum of five and a
maximum of 15 select members of contributing Continua of
Care/Collaborative Applicants.
(b) The data warehouse shall meet the requirements of the United
States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Homeless
Management Information System Technical Standards in protecting
privacy.
(c) After the creation of a data warehouse that includes data from
the agencies identified in subdivision (a), participating agencies
shall input data at least every quarter.
(b)
(d) 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)
(e) This section shall be implemented only when
sufficient federal and private funds have been received to create the
homeless integrated data warehouse.