Bill Text: CA AB349 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 349

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Bill Title: Patton State Hospital: lease: housing and mental health services for homeless individuals.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 325, Statutes of 2023. [AB349 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB349-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate May 09, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 349

Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bains, Davies, Dixon, Stephanie Nguyen, Petrie-Norris, Rodriguez, and Wilson)

January 31, 2023

An act to amend Section 14672.95 of the Government Code, relating to state property.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 349, as amended, Ramos. Patton State Hospital: lease: housing and mental health services for ~~homeless.~~ homeless individuals.

Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to perform various duties relating to state real property, including ~~leasing~~ by authorizing the Director of General Services to let a building located at Patton State Hospital to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for a period not to exceed 20 years, for the purpose of providing services to elderly persons.

This bill would delete the 20-year lease ~~maximum, and would change the purposes of authorized lease to providing housing and mental health services for homeless individuals.~~ maximum and would additionally authorize the Director of General Services to lease the building described above for the purposes of providing housing to homeless individuals and providing mental health services to those individuals.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14672.95 of the Government Code is amended to read:

14672.95.

Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, may let a building located at Patton State Hospital to a nonprofit corporation or local ~~government, for the purposes of providing housing to homeless individuals and providing mental health services to those individuals.~~ government for either of the following purposes:

(a) Providing services to elderly persons.
(b) Providing housing to homeless individuals and providing mental health services to those individuals.