Bill Text: CA AB683 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Homelessness: housing status data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB683 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB683-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 683	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 29 to the Health and Safety Code, relating
to homeless persons.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 683, as introduced, Ammiano. Homelessness.
   Under existing law, several agencies have prescribed
responsibilities relating to homeless persons.
   This bill would define the term homeless to include individuals
and families who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime
residence and who have a primary nighttime residence that falls
within one or more specified categories.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 29 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   29.  For the purposes of this code, "homeless" includes
individuals or families that lack a fixed, regular, and adequate
nighttime residence and who have a primary nighttime residence that
falls within one or more of the following categories:
   (a) Shelter, including anyone staying in a supervised public or
private facility that provides temporary living accommodations, such
as a mission or a homeless or domestic violence shelter, and
including anyone displaced from housing due to a disaster situation.
   (b) Street, including, but not limited to, the street, the
sidewalk, a doorway, a park, or a freeway underpass.
   (c) Vehicle, including anyone staying in a car, van, bus, truck,
RV, or similar vehicle.
   (d) Make-shift, including anyone staying in an enclosure or
structure that is not authorized or fit for human habitation by
building or housing codes, including, but not limited to, abandoned
buildings, "squats," or substandard apartments and dwellings.
   (e) Doubled-up, including any of the following:
   (1) Anyone staying with friends or extended family members,
excluding parents and children, because they are otherwise unable to
obtain housing.
   (2) Any family with children staying in a single room opccupancy
(SRO) hotel room, whether or not they have tenancy rights.
   (3) Anyone staying in temporary housing for less than six months
where the accommodations provided to the person are substandard or
inadequate, such as a garage, small room, or overly crowed space.
   (f) Transitional, including any of the following:
   (1) Anyone staying in an SRO hotel room without tenancy rights.
   (2) Anyone formerly homeless within one of the categories
described in subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, who is now
incarcerated, hospitalized, or living in a treatment program, halfway
house, or transitional housing.
   (3) Anyone formerly homeless within one of the categories
described in subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, who has obtained
supportive housing or permanent housing for less than 30 days.