Bill Text: CA AB1336 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Child health and safety fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-07-01 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 47, Statutes of 2019. [AB1336 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1336-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 1336
CHAPTER 47
An act to amend Section 18285 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
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Approved by
Governor
July 01, 2019.
Filed with
Secretary of State
July 01, 2019.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1336, Smith.
Child health and safety fund.
Existing law establishes the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” specialized license plate program. Existing law establishes fees for those specialized license plates and requires those and other fees, less specified expenses, to be deposited in the Child Health and Safety Fund. A specified amount of moneys in the fund are available, upon appropriation, for programs that address specified child health and safety concerns, including, among others, vehicular safety and drowning prevention.
This bill would include in that list of specified child health and safety concerns, among other concerns, pedestrian safety, sleep suffocation, and sports-related concussions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 18285 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:18285.
(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Child Health and Safety Fund for the purposes specified in this section.(b) Moneys for this fund shall be derived from the license plate program provided for pursuant to Section 5072 of the Vehicle Code and from civil penalties on child daycare facility providers.
(c) Moneys in the fund shall be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purposes specified in subdivisions (d), (e) and (f).
(d) Fifty percent of moneys derived from the license plate program pursuant to Section 5072 of the Vehicle Code shall be available, upon appropriation, to the State Department of Social Services for the purpose of administering provisions of Sections 1596.816, 1596.87, 1596.872b, 1596.893b 1596.895, 1596.95, 1597.091, 1597.54, 1597.541, 1597.542, 1597.55b and 1597.62 of the Health and Safety Code. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, an additional five hundred one thousand dollars ($501,000), in excess of the 50 percent derived from the license plate program, also shall be made availn a two-year period or whose implementation is dependent upon one-time initial funding:
(1) Child abuse prevention, except that not more than 25 percent of the moneys in this fund shall be used for this purpose. Ninety percent of the 25 percent shall be deposited in the county children’s trust fund, established pursuant
to Section 18966 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, for the support of child abuse prevention services in the community, and 10 percent of the 25 percent shall be deposited in the State Children’s Trust Fund, established pursuant to Section 18969, for public education, training, and technical assistance.
(2) Vehicular safety, including restraint, warnings,
and education programs.
(3) Drowning prevention.
(4) Playground safety standards.
(5) Pedestrian Safety.
(6) Bicycle safety.
(7) Gun safety.
(8) Fire safety.
(9) Poison control and safety.
(10) In-home safety.
(11) Childhood poisoning, including from prescription
medications, lead, and other toxic substances.
(12) Sleep suffocation and sudden infant death syndrome.
(13) Children left in parked cars and children run over by cars moving forward or backward.
(14) Sports-related concussions, heat stroke, and spinal injury safety.
(f) Moneys derived from civil penalties imposed on daycare
care facility providers shall be made available, upon appropriation, to the State Department of Social Services exclusively for the technical assistance, orientation, training, and education of child daycare facility providers.
