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

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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-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 683	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ammiano

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add  Section 29 to the Health and Safety
  Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section 13710) to Part 3
of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions  Code, relating to
homeless persons.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 683, as amended, Ammiano. Homelessness. 
   Under existing law, various agencies administer programs for the
support of homeless persons.  
   This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community
Development to create a statewide Homeless Management Information
System to compile data from collaborative agencies throughout
California for the purpose of developing a composite portrayal of the
homeless population in the state, as well as services currently
provided to people who are homeless. The bill would also require the
department, with the cooperation and collaboration of other specified
agencies, to create a deidentified integrated research database
comprised of specified information on the homeless population, the
services provided to them, and the annual costs of those services.
Implementation of the bill would be contingent upon sufficient
federal and private sector funds being received to create the
Homeless Management Information System.  
   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
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Chapter 6.1 (commencing with Section
13710) is added to Part 3 of Division 9 of the   Welfare and
Institutions Code   , to read:  
      CHAPTER 6.1.  HOMELESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM


   13710.  (a) The Department of Housing and Community Development
shall do both of the following:
   (1) Create a statewide Homeless Management Information System to
compile data from collaborative agencies throughout California for
the purpose of developing a composite portrayal of the homeless
population in the state, as well as services currently provided to
people who are homeless.
   (2) With the cooperation and collaboration of each of the
following agencies, draft and carry out a strategy to create a
deidentified integrated research database comprised of information
from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the State
Department of Education, the State Department of Health Care
Services, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the
State Department of Mental Health, the State Department of Social
Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the State
Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, to provide longitudinal,
cost-based studies based on the following information:
   (A) The number of people imprisoned each year who were homeless
upon arrest and the costs of their imprisonment.
   (B) The number of parolees experiencing homelessness each year and
the costs of their parole.
   (C) The number of children in California schools experiencing
homelessness.
   (D) Claims for Medi-Cal emergency department, hospital, and
nursing home services among people experiencing homelessness, and the
costs of those claims each year.
   (E) The number of children receiving foster care services whose
family members are homeless and the costs of the foster care provided
to those children each year.
   (F) The number of people who are homeless receiving services, the
costs of those services, and outcomes of those services through the
State Department of Mental Health, State Department of Social
Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, and State Department of
Alcohol and Drug Programs.
   (G) The number of people living in housing funded through programs
administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development
who were homeless upon admission.
   (b) This section shall be implemented only when sufficient federal
and private sector funds have been received to create the Homeless
Management Information System.  
  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.