Bill Text: CA AB2920 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Transactions and use taxes: North Lake Tahoe Transportation Authority and City of Berkeley.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-26 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 771, Statutes of 2018. [AB2920 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2920-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2920

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Introduced by Assembly Member Thurmond

February 16, 2018

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An act to amend Section 13700 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homeless youth.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2920, as introduced, Thurmond. Homeless youth: emergency service pilot programs.

Existing law requires the establishment of various homeless youth emergency service pilot programs, monitored by the Office of Emergency Services, in order to locate these youth, to provide for their emergency survival needs, and to assist them in reunifying with their parents or in finding a suitable home.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 13700 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

13700.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) There are homeless minors living on the streets of major urban centers in this state without adequate food, shelter, health care, or financial support.

(b) Many of these the homeless youth in these urban centers come from out-of-city or out-of-county locations.

(c) The homeless child, in many instances, has a history of physical or sexual abuse at home, and of having been rejected or forced out of the parental home.

(d) While living on the streets, these youth fall prey to drug abuse, prostitution, and other illegal activities.

(e) Local public agencies are unable to provide these youth with an adequate level or range of remedial services.

(f) These homeless minors are urgently in need of urgently need specialized services to locate them, to assist them with their immediate survival needs, and to address their long-term need to reunite with their parents or find a suitable home.

(g) Two homeless youth emergency service pilot programs, one in the City of Los Angeles, and one in the City and County of San Francisco, have demonstrated the need for ongoing programs to meet the needs of homeless minors and the effectiveness of these programs in meeting these needs.

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(h) Therefore, it is the purpose of this chapter is therefore to maintain one homeless youth emergency project in the County of Los Angeles and one in the City and County of San Francisco, where the problem is most acute, and to the extent funds are appropriated in the Budget Act of 1991, appropriated, to establish additional homeless youth emergency service pilot projects pursuant to this chapter. It is the further purpose of this chapter to examine the condition of homeless youth in major urban areas of this state with populations of 500,000 or more, as well as other urban, suburban, and rural areas, and to develop a profile of homeless youth in terms of background and available services, in order to locate these youth, to provide for their emergency survival needs, and to assist them in reunification reunifying with their parents or in finding a suitable home.