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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

95

Introduced by Assembly Member Caloza

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Ahrens, Garcia, Harabedian, McKinnor, Pacheco, Schiavo, and Schultz)

January 16, 2025

An act to add Section 14475.5 to the Government Code, relating to homelessness.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: yes   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

Existing law, the Governor’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2025, beginning July 1, 2026, eliminates the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and instead establishes the Business and Consumer Services Agency and the California Housing and Homelessness Agency (agency). Existing law requires the agency to coordinate with the California Health and Human Services Agency and the California Consumer Protection Agency on various state policies, including housing.

This bill would require the agency to create a study on issues impacting pregnant people experiencing homelessness and report the results of the study, as well as recommendations to establish a PINK Alert, to the Legislature by July 1, 2028. The bill would require the recommendations to include how the PINK Alert can meet specified conditions, including that it be a system that nonprofits can opt in to in order to get notifications if there is a pregnant person in need of emergency housing or prenatal services.

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

SECTION 1.

Section 14475.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:

14475.5.

(a) The California Housing and Homelessness Agency shall create a study on issues impacting pregnant people experiencing homelessness.

(b) The agency shall report the results of the study and recommendations on establishing a PINK Alert system to the Legislature by July 1, 2028.

(c) The recommendations shall include, but not be limited to, how the PINK Alert can be a system that shall do all of the following:

(1) Allow nonprofits to opt in to the system in order to get notifications if there is a pregnant person in need of emergency housing or prenatal services.

(2) Notify nonprofit housing shelters, temporary housing, or overnight housing shelters that are capable of housing pregnant persons.

(3) Be a program that can be registered for.

(4) Automatically enroll organizations that are already a part of emergency services.

(d) A report to be submitted pursuant to under subdivision (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.