Bill Text: CA AB1783 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: H-2A worker housing: state funding: streamlined approval process for agricultural employee housing development.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 866, Statutes of 2019. [AB1783 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1783-Amended.html
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Introduced by Assembly Member Robert Rivas (Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Bloom, Chiu, Eduardo Garcia, and Gonzalez) (Coauthors: Senators Beall, Caballero, Durazo, and Wiener) |
February 22, 2019 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12745 of the Government Code is amended to read:12745.
(a) Eligible activities for which financial assistance may be obtained pursuant to this chapter shall be designed to have a measurable and potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem. These activities shall be designed to assist low-income participants to do all the following:SEC. 2.
Section 12760 of the Government Code is amended to read:12760.
Subject to Section 12788, community action agencies funded under this article shall coordinate their plans and activities with other eligible entities funded under Articles 7 (commencing with Section 12765) and 8 (commencing with Section 12770) that serve any part of their communities, so that funds are not used to duplicate particular services to the same beneficiaries and plans and policies affecting all grantees under this chapter are shaped, to the extent possible, so as to be equitable and beneficial to all community agencies and the populations they serve.SEC. 3.
Section 12767 of the Government Code is amended to read:12767.
Subject to Section 12788, programs assisted under this article may include projects or activities to do any of the following:SEC. 4.
Section 12787 of the Government Code is amended to read:12787.
Except as provided in Section 12788, this chapter shall not be construed to prohibit an eligible entity under Article 6 (commencing with Section 12750), Article 7 (commencing with Section 12765), or Article 8 (commencing with Section 12770), from applying for state discretionary funds, provided that no discretionary funding received by the eligible entity shall be used to duplicate services funded pursuant to other provisions of this chapter.SEC. 5.
Section 12788 is added to the Government Code, to read:12788.
(a) On and after January 1, 2020, housing funded pursuant to this chapter shall not include housing used to comply with the requirement under Section 1188(c)(4) of Title 8 of the United States Code to furnish housing to H-2A workers, as defined in Section 50205 of the Health and Safety Code. A person who receives funds made available pursuant to this chapter on or after January 1, 2020, and expends any of those funds for the purpose of planning, developing, or operating housing described in this article shall reimburse the department or other state agency that provided those funds, as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 50205 of the Health and Safety Code.SEC. 6.
Section 65582.1 of the Government Code is amended to read:65582.1.
The Legislature finds and declares that it has provided reforms and incentives to facilitate and expedite the construction of affordable housing. Those reforms and incentives can be found in the following provisions:SEC. 7.
Section 17008 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:17008.
(a) “Employee housing,” as used in this part, means any portion of any housing accommodation, or property upon which a housing accommodation is located, if all of the following factors exist:(f)(1)(A)“Employee housing,” as used in this part, also includes agricultural employee housing, as defined in
subparagraph (B).
(B)“Agricultural employee housing” means housing occupied by an employee of an agricultural employer, as defined in Section 1140.4 of the Labor Code, or by a farm labor contractor, as defined in Section 1682 of the Labor Code.
(2)A tenant residing in agricultural employee housing has all rights applicable to a person residing in employee housing, including the following:
(A)The right to file a verified complaint with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing alleging a violation of housing discrimination, or to assert any other right, under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 12900) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
(B)Any protections for tenants or lessees under the Civil Code or the Labor Code, except as otherwise provided in Section 17031.6.
(C)Any protection or right under the Alatorre-Zenovich-Dunlap-Berman Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 (Part 3.5 (commencing with Section 1140) of Division 2 of the Labor Code).