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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
94
Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Alvarez, Juan Carrillo, Chen, Davies, Dixon, Flora, Lackey, Mathis, Muratsuchi, Pacheco, Joe Patterson, Villapudua, and Wallis)
February 15, 2024
An act to add Section 8257.02 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to homelessness.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal committee: yes Local program: no
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Existing law requires a state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs, upon request of the council, to participate in council activities, as specified, and to provide to the council any relevant information regarding those state homelessness programs.
This bill would require, commencing September 1, 2025, a state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs to report annually to the council cost and outcome data for each program the agency or department administers, and would require the council, in coordination with each agency or department required to report to the council, as specified, to develop data collection and reporting procedures for this purpose. The bill would require the council to compile the data reported by agencies and departments and, commencing April 1, 2026, annually make that data available to the public.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 8257.02 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:
8257.02.
(a) Commencing September 1, 2025, a state agency or department that administers one or more state homelessness programs shall annually report cost and outcome data to the council in accordance with the data collection and reporting procedures developed pursuant to subdivision (b) for each state-funded homelessness program the agency or department administers.
(b) The council shall develop data collection and reporting procedures for the data collection and reporting required pursuant to subdivision (a) in coordination with each agency or department required to report to the council pursuant to subdivision (a), and in alignment with existing reporting requirements, as applicable.
(c) The council shall compile the data reported pursuant to subdivision (a) and, commencing April 1, 2026, shall annually make the compiled data available to the public.