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Bill No: AB 2187
Author: Cooley (D)
Amended: 4/21/14 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE : 4-0, 6/10/14
AYES: Beall, DeSaulnier, Liu, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Berryhill
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/5/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : County children's trust funds
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires that birth certificate fees
collected by a county for a child, whose mother resides in
another county, to be transmitted to the county children's trust
fund in the county of the mother's residence. Removes the
specification that the transfer is only required if the county
of residence has no licensed health facility that provides
maternity services within its jurisdiction.
ANALYSIS :
Existing Law:
1.Establishes the State Children's Trust Fund, for the purpose
of funding innovative and distinctive child abuse and neglect
prevention and intervention projects and permits individuals
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to designate income taxes, counties to designate a portion of
birth certificate fees, and private individuals to grant, gift
and bequeath monies to the fund.
2.Authorizes a board of supervisors to designate a voluntary
commission, board or council to establish a county children's
trust fund, consisting of fees collected from birth
certificates, grants, gifts, or bequests from private sources
to be used for child abuse and neglect prevention and
intervention programs, and any funds appropriated by local
governmental entities or the Legislature.
3.Establishes a birth certificate fee structure of $12 to be
paid by an agency applicant, as specified, and $18 to be paid
by any other applicant, $4 of which is to be paid to either a
county children's trust fund or to the State Children's Trust
Fund, as specified.
4.Requires birth certificate fees collected for the county
children's trust fund by a county for a child whose mother
resides in another county that does not have a licensed health
facility providing maternity services, to be transmitted by
the county treasurer to the county of the mother's residence.
5.Provides that counties that receive less than $20,000 per year
for the county children's trust fund from birth certificate
fees shall be granted from federal matching funds an amount
that brings the trust fund up to $20,000. From the remainder
(if applicable), each county is required to receive $10,000,
with the remaining funds to be distributed based on
population.
This bill removes the condition that a county shall transmit
county children's trust fund monies to the county of residence
only when that county has no licensed health facility providing
maternity services.
Background
State Children's Trust Fund and County Children's Trust Fund .
The State Children's Trust Fund was established in 1982 to
provide funding for innovative and distinctive child abuse and
neglect prevention and intervention projects. It is funded
through county birth certificate surcharges, state income tax
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designations and private donations. These monies were not
realigned and are awarded by the state Office of Child Abuse
Prevention to counties that have submitted proposals. The
purpose of these funds is to research, evaluate and disseminate
information to the public, to establish public-private
partnerships with foundations and corporations, and to increase
public awareness about child abuse and neglect via media
campaigns.
Similarly, the county children's trust funds were established
the same year to support county child abuse prevention
coordinating councils, as well as child abuse prevention and
intervention programs provided by community based organizations
or universities. Counties are required to report the following
information to the Office of Child Abuse Prevention:
Descriptions of the types of programs and services funded from
the county trust funds;
Target populations benefitting from these programs;
Amount of each revenue source county trust funds as of June 30
of each year; and
Amount disbursed in the preceding fiscal year.
Community Based Child Abuse Prevention . The community-based
child abuse prevention program provides federal grant funding to
support community-based efforts aimed at the prevention of child
abuse and neglect and the coordination of resources and
activities to support families. In California, the program
targets improved public awareness and education about preventing
child abuse, and providing supportive services to vulnerable
populations and families including mental health care, substance
abuse, respite care, housing, and transportation, among others.
Community-based child abuse prevention funds are allocated
annually by the state to counties that have applied for the
funds, with smaller counties receiving funds to supplement the
County Children's Trust Fund accounts of less than $20,000,
after which all applying counties receive a base award of
$10,000 and the remainder of monies to be distributed by
population.
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Comments
According to the author's office, currently, if a mother gives
birth in a delivery facility that is outside of her county of
residence, and her county of residence has a delivery facility,
the fee charged for the copies of her child's birth certificate
remains with the county where she delivered her child. The
author's office states that as a result, the birth certificate
fee revenue that would benefit the child's county of residence,
in the form of neglect and abuse prevention programs and
services, is lost to the county of delivery.
The author's office states that because health insurance
parameters often dictate what delivery facilities that are in a
patient's "network," some pregnant mothers may need to deliver
outside of the county in which they live. To ensure that each
county receives the funds for the children it provides programs
and services for, the author's office argues that it is vital
that the fee for requests of copies of a child's birth
certificate should follow the child, regardless of where the
child's mother gives birth.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/11/14)
California Family Resource Association
Child Abuse Prevention Center
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-0, 5/5/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez,
Holden, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Lowenthal,
Maienschein, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande,
Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk,
Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner,
Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Logue, Mansoor, Melendez, Vacancy
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JL:e 6/11/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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