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AB-2630 Housing: California Interagency Council on Homelessness: report.(2021-2022)

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Date Published: 05/20/2022 04:00 AM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 19, 2022
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 21, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2630

Introduced by Assembly Member O’Donnell

February 18, 2022

An act to add Section 8257.3 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2630, as amended, O’Donnell. Housing: California Interagency Council on Homelessness: report.
Existing law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Existing law also establishes various programs to assist local governments in addressing homelessness, such as the Homeless Emergency Aid Program and the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program. Existing law requires applicants to that program to submit specified information to the council, including a local landscape analysis that assesses the current number of people experiencing homelessness and existing programs and funding that address homelessness within the jurisdiction, utilizing any relevant and available data from the Homeless Data Integration System, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s homeless point-in-time count, continuum of care housing inventory count, longitudinal systems analysis, and Stella tools, as well as any recently conducted local needs assessments.
This bill would require each city, county, and city and county that has used funds from any state funding source to assist in addressing homelessness to complete a report and publish the report on its internet website providing specified information, or, alternatively, publishing a local landscape analysis homelessness action plan on its internet website, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YES  

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


SECTION 1.

 Section 8257.3 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

8257.3.
 (a) A city, county, or city and county that has used funds from any state funding source to assist in addressing homelessness shall complete a report and publish the report on its internet website by July 1, 2023, that includes all of the following:
(1) The To the extent that data is reasonably available, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the jurisdiction as of the date of the report, which shall be determined by utilizing relevant and available data from one or more of the following sources:
(A) The Homeless Data Integration System.
(B) A Point-in-Time count from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(C) A Continuum of Care Homeless Assistance Programs Housing Inventory Count Report from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
(D) A Longitudinal Systems Analysis report produced from the Homelessness Management Information System.
(E) The Stella strategy and analysis tool from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

(F)A local needs assessment completed within three years of the date of the report.

(2) A list of existing programs the jurisdiction uses to address homelessness, provide housing, and provide homelessness-related services to persons experiencing homelessness or persons who are at imminent risk of homelessness.
(3) A list of local, state, and federal funding the jurisdiction uses or has budgeted to use to address homelessness, provide housing, and provide homelessness-related services to persons experiencing homelessness or persons who are at imminent risk of homelessness in the jurisdiction.
(4) The number of individuals and families served by the programs and funding described in the lists required by paragraphs (2) and (3), which shall include demographic information of the individuals and families served.
(5) The types of interventions provided pursuant to the programs and funding described in the lists required by paragraphs (2) and (3).
(b) A city, county, or city and county that has submitted a local landscape analysis homelessness action plan pursuant to Section 50220.7 of the Health and Safety Code may satisfy the requirements of this section by publishing the local landscape analysis homelessness action plan on its internet website.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that Section 1 of this act adding Section 8257.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair as that term is used in Section 5 of Article XI of the California Constitution. Therefore, Section 1 of this act applies to all cities, including charter cities.

SEC. 3.

 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.