Bill Text: CA AB2876 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Veterans housing: assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2876 Detail]
Download: California-2015-AB2876-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2876 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 18, 2016
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bloom
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 5135 of the Public Resources
Code, relating to local art galleries and museums. add
Chapter 11.6 (commencing with Section 50810) to Part 2 of Division
31 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to veterans housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2876, as amended, Bloom. Local art galleries and
museums. Veterans housing: assistance.
Existing law requires the California Housing Finance Agency, the
Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department
of Veterans Affairs to work together to administer the Veterans
Housing and Homeless Prevention Bond Act of 2014 to provide for the
acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of
affordable multifamily supportive housing, affordable transitional
housing, affordable rental housing, or related facilities for
veterans and their families to allow veterans to access and maintain
housing stability.
Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to
publicize information pertaining to benefit programs that are
available to qualified homeless veterans, including, but not limited
to, the federal Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing
voucher program, and any programs that assist homeless veterans in
securing rental housing.
This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community
Development, after consulting with the Department of Veterans
Affairs, to establish a program to provide on an annual basis a grant
to eligible cities, counties, or nonprofit organizations that
provide services to homeless veterans. The bill would require these
grants to be used to provide veterans who receive a federal
Supportive Housing voucher, but may or may not be eligible for funds
from the federal Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services
for Veteran Families program, with supplemental funding for one or
more move-in expenses, as defined.
Existing law authorizes every city and county to accept title to
real property for museum or art gallery purposes or permit the
erection of buildings and improvements for these purposes on lands
owned by the city or county.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 11.6 (commencing with Section
50810) is added to Part 2 of Division 31 of the Health and
Safety Code , to read:
CHAPTER 11.6. VETERANS SUPPORTIVE HOUSING
50810. (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development
shall, after consulting with the Department of Veterans Affairs,
establish a program to provide on an annual basis a grant to eligible
cities, counties, or nonprofit organizations that provide services
to homeless veterans. These grants shall provide veterans who receive
a federal Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Supportive
Housing (HUD-VASH) voucher pursuant to the HUD-VASH program (Public
Law 110-161), but may or may not be eligible for funds from the
federal Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for
Veteran Families program (38 U.S.C. Sec. 2044), with supplemental
funding for one or more move-in expenses.
(b) The Department of Housing and Community Development shall
annually accept grant applications from a nonprofit organization that
provides services to homeless veterans and has received federal
funds pursuant to the Supportive Services for Veteran Families
program within the year prior to the application. The department
shall also annually accept grant applications from a city or county
that has approved for the year in which the application is submitted
the expenditure of funds to provide move-in expenses to veterans who
receive a HUD-VASH voucher.
(c) The amount of the grant to a nonprofit organization that
provides services to homeless veterans shall not exceed either one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or the amount of the federal
funds received by that nonprofit organization for the year in which
the state application is submitted, whichever amount is less. The
amount of the grant to a city or county shall not exceed one million
dollars ($1,000,000) or the amount authorized by the city or county
to provide move-in expenses to veterans who receive HUD-VASH
vouchers, whichever amount is less.
(d) There is hereby established in the General Fund the Homeless
Veterans Supportive Housing Account. Moneys deposited in the account
shall be made available, upon appropriation, to the Department of
Housing and Community Development to provide grants pursuant to this
section.
(e) For purposes of this section, "move-in expenses" means any of
the following:
(1) Security deposit.
(2) First-month's rent.
(3) Refrigerator.
(4) Microwave.
(5) Mattress.
(6) Bedding, such as pillows, sheets, and blankets.
(7) Moving services.
(8) Holding deposit, holding fee, or both, charged to manage a
landlord's risk of a delayed move-in date or delay in receiving a
HUD-VASH voucher payment in an amount that does not exceed two months'
rent.
(9) Maintenance repairs necessary for a dwelling unit to meet the
housing standard required by the HUD-VASH program.
(10) Credit check and application fees.
(11) Utility deposit.
(12) Past due rent and fees for use of a rental storage unit
immediately prior to occupancy of a dwelling unit obtained with a
HUD-VASH voucher.
SECTION 1. Section 5135 of the Public Resources
Code is amended to read:
5135. Each city and county may accept title to real property for
museum or art gallery purposes, or permit the erection of buildings
and improvements for these purposes on lands owned by the city or
county.
