Bill Text: CA AB2218 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Enhanced Services for Asylees and Vulnerable Noncitizens (ESAVN) program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2218 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2218-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 11, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Santiago |
February 07, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes in the California Health and Human Services Agency the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, the director of the department is required, among other things, to administer the laws pertaining to the administration of public social services, except health care services and medical assistance. Existing law requires the department to contract with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied undocumented minors who are transferred to the care and custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who are present in this state.
This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to undocumented immigrants.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13650 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:13650.
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(4)Between 2017 and 2019, the number of applicants granted asylum increased from 26,199 applicants to 46,508 applicants, representing a 56-percent increase. In 2019 alone, California was the settlement state for 34 percent of all new asylees, which was the highest rate of all states.
SEC. 2.
Section 13651 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:13651.
(a) The program shall provide culturally appropriate and responsive case management services for asylees and vulnerable noncitizens for up to 90 days within the first year following the grant of asylum or after having been deemed eligible for services under Section 13283.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to undocumented immigrants.