Bill Text: CA SB742 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 742

Introduced

Bill Title: Housing: homelessness programs: report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB742 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB742-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 742

Introduced by Senator Atkins

February 17, 2023

An act to add Chapter 21 (commencing with Section 18999.99) to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 742, as introduced, Atkins. Housing: homelessness programs: report.

Existing law establishes various programs to provide assistance to persons experiencing homelessness, including, among others, the CalWORKS Housing Support Program, the Bringing Families Home Program, and the Home Safe Program. Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to oversee the implementation of Housing First guidelines and regulations, and, among other things, identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. Existing law also establishes various programs to provide rental assistance to help eligible households, including, among others, the state rental assistance program.

On or before December 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, this bill would require an agency that funds, implements, or administers a program that provides housing or housing-based services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including rental assistance programs, to provide prescribed information to specified committees of the Legislature. This bill would authorize an agency to request a city, county, or city and county to provide specified information to that agency if the city, county, or city and county has received state funds from the agency to fund, implement, or administer the program, as defined.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Chapter 21 (commencing with Section 18999.99) is added to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

CHAPTER 21. Homelessness Programs and Data Reporting

18999.99.

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Agency” means a state agency, department, division, bureau, board, or commission.

(b) “At risk of homelessness” has the same meaning as that term is defined in Section 91.5 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(c) “Persons experiencing homelessness” has the same meaning as “homeless person” as defined in Section 91.5 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations.

(d) “Program” means any program an agency funds, implements, or administers that provides housing or housing-based services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, including rental assistance programs, with the exception of federally funded programs with requirements inconsistent with this chapter.

18999.991

(a) (1) On or before December 30, 2024, and annually thereafter on December 30, and notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, an agency shall provide a report to the appropriate budget and policy committees of the Legislature. The report shall include all of the following information:

(A) An ongoing tracking of the specific uses and expenditures of any program funds broken out by eligible uses listed, including the current status of those funds.

(B) The number of individuals served by the program funds in that year, and the total number served in all years of the program, including demographics served.

(D) Outcome data for an individual served through program funds, including the type of housing that an individual exited to, the percentage of successful housing exits, and exit types for unsuccessful housing exits.

(2) A report to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(b) An agency may request a city, county, or city and county to provide the information described in subparagraphs (A) to (D), inclusive, of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) to that agency if the city, county, or city and county received state funds from the agency to fund, implement, or administer a program.