Bill Text: CA SB174 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 174 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Crisis nurseries: study.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB174 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB174-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 174	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cooper, Dodd, and McCarty)
   (  Coauthor:   Senator  
Pan   Coauthors:   Senators   Gaines
  and Pan  )

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2015

   An act to add and repeal Section 1517 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to crisis nurseries.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 174, as amended, Wolk. Crisis nurseries: study.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the
State Department of Social Services of crisis nurseries. Crisis
nurseries are nonprofit corporations that care for and supervise
children under 6 years of age who are voluntarily placed in the
crisis nursery by a parent or legal guardian due to a family crisis
or stressful situation for no more than 30 days.
   This bill, until January 1, 2018, would require the department to
implement a 2-year pilot project in the  Counties 
 County  of Sacramento and  the County of  Yolo to
conduct a study of the relationship between crisis respite care and
incidents of reported child abuse in those counties, and report the
results of the study to the Legislature. The bill would make the
implementation of this pilot project contingent upon all of the
crisis nurseries in those counties voluntarily participating in the
project and providing funding for 1/2 of the cost of the project.
 This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to
provide state funding for crisis nurseries in the Budget Act of 2015
for community services and this pilot project. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1517 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   1517.  (a) The department shall implement a two-year pilot project
in the County of Sacramento and the County of Yolo for the purpose
of evaluating the effectiveness of crisis nurseries in lowering the
incidence of child abuse in those counties. This pilot project shall
be implemented only if all of the crisis nurseries in those counties
voluntarily participate in the project and provide private funding
for one-half of the cost of the project. The pilot project shall
consist of both of the following:
   (1) The department shall conduct a study of the relationship
between crisis respite care and incidents of reported child abuse in
pilot project counties.
   (2) The department shall report the results of the study to the
Legislature on or before December 31, 2017. The report shall comply
with Section 9795 of the Government Code. 
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide state funding
for crisis nurseries in the Budget Act of 2015 in order to enable
crisis nurseries to continue to provide services to the community and
to participate in the pilot project established by this section.
 
   (c) 
    (b)  This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1, 2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or
extends that date.