Bill Text: CA AB2268 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Services for underserved populations: funding models.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-24 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2268 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB2268-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2268 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 29, 2012
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Eng
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
An act to add Section 35 to the Government Code,
relating to health and human services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2268, as amended, Eng. Services for underserved populations:
funding models.
Under existing law, various state and local agencies fund or
administer programs to provide services, such as public health
information, social services, and education and child care resources,
to eligible persons.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to identify populations that are eligible for various
community-based services, but that are underserved as a result of
traditional place-based and regional funding models for providing
these services, and to identify and implement strategies to ensure
that the services are made available pursuant to a population-based
model, where appropriate.
This bill would require state and local agencies to create and
implement mechanisms to supplement place-based and regional funding
strategies, as defined, to improve the equitable distribution of
public resources in relation to funding community-based
organizations, as defined, for the provision of health and human
services and educational services. Because this bill would increase
the duties of local officials, this bill would create a
state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no
yes .
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares
all of the following:
(1) Place-based and regional funding strategies share the
similarity of defining specific geographic areas of moderate size and
focusing resources to those places, typically through the funding of
community-based providers, to achieve measurable outcomes over time.
(2) State and local agencies using place-based or regional funding
strategies represent billions of dollars for California communities.
Shortcomings of the approach have profound effects on community
groups that find themselves outside of, or are underrepresented
within, targeted neighborhoods.
(3) Place-based and regional funding strategies have had mixed
results in terms of desired outcomes, such as reduction of poverty
and economic revitalization of targeted neighborhoods. Despite the
mixed outcomes, place-based and regional funding strategies remain
attractive to state and local agencies and are experiencing a new
wave of popularity.
(4) A growing number of community-based organizations are
challenged with a disparate effect on access to resources, which
results in inequitable capacity and infrastructure, which then
perpetuates the limited access to resources.
(b) Therefore, it is the intent of the Legislature to require
state and local agencies to create and implement new mechanisms to
improve the equitable distribution of public resources to
traditionally underserved populations.
SEC. 2. Section 35 is added to the
Government Code , to read:
35. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
(1) "Community-based organization" means a private nonprofit
organization that is representative of a community group or a
significant segment of a community group that directly provides
health and human services or educational services to meet community
needs.
(2) "Community group" means a population that is defined by
affinity, not geography, which may include, but is not limited to,
ethnic populations; persons with disabilities; veterans; the lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and underserved
communities that have demonstrated barriers to access to health and
human services or educational services, or both.
(3) "Place-based funding" means the utilization of a framework
that includes building upon local infrastructure and saturating an
area with resources with the goal of achieving measurable outcomes
and facilitating a community-driven investment in the regional plan
and the identification of corresponding services.
(4) "Regional funding" means the utilization of specific
geographic boundaries for the allocation of resources.
(b) (1) In relation to funding community-based organizations for
the provision of health and human services and educational services,
state and local agencies shall do both of the following:
(A) Create and implement a mechanism that allows community-based
organizations outside of targeted boundaries established pursuant to
placed-based or regional funding strategies to work with
service-eligible community groups within those targeted boundaries.
(B) Create and implement a mechanism that allows service-eligible
community groups outside of targeted boundaries established pursuant
to placed-based or regional funding strategies to access services
from community-based organizations within those targeted boundaries.
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the mechanisms
created pursuant to this section be implemented to supplement
placed-based and regional funding strategies utilized by state and
local agencies.
(c) In creating the mechanisms described in subdivision (b), state
and local agencies shall do all of the following:
(1) Ensure that culturally competent community-based organizations
serving geographically dispersed cultural or language community
groups can receive sufficient resources to meet critical community
needs.
(2) Base needs analysis on disaggregated data that identify
disparities in health care and other services, taking into
consideration that communities are not always tied to a specific
neighborhood.
(3) Engage community leaders and community members for their
expertise and recommendations when developing these types of funding
initiatives.
(4) Invest in community capacity and infrastructure building
through supporting the development of community-based organizations
serving underrepresented or high-need community groups.
(5) Ensure that language access and cultural considerations are at
the forefront of program development and not an afterthought.
(6) Ensure that community-based organizations being funded
demonstrate linguistic and cultural competency to serve and work with
all service-eligible residents and communities within the targeted
place or region.
(d) For the purposes of receiving funding under the mechanisms
created pursuant to this section, community-based organizations that
do not have a demonstrated capacity to serve a certain segment of the
population may partner with other community-based organizations that
do have that demonstrated competence.
SEC. 3. If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would develop an approach to do both of the
following:
(a) Identify populations that are eligible for community-based
services, including, but not limited to, public health services,
social services, and educational services, but that are underserved
as a result of traditional place-based and regional funding models
for providing these services.
(b) Identify and implement strategies, for use by state and local
agencies that provide or administer funding for the services
described in subdivision (a), to ensure that the services are made
available pursuant to a population-based model, where appropriate,
and that input from community-based organizations is given priority.
