Tasha Boerner
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 77
Author
Existing law establishes homeless youth emergency service pilot projects in the City of Los Angeles and the City and County of San Francisco providing services to homeless minors, including food and access to an overnight shelter and counseling to address immediate emotional crises or problems. Existing law also requires similar programs to be established in the Counties of San Diego and Santa Clara, and all of these programs to be operated by an agency in accordance with a grant award agreement with the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires the Governor to create the California Interagency Council on Homelessness and specifies the duties of the council. Existing law requires agencies and departments administering state programs to collaborate with the council to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First, which include, among other things, a tenant screening process that accepts applicants regardless of sobriety, not rejecting applicants based on poor credit or financial history, and prohibiting participation in services or program compliance from being a requirement for permanent housing. This bill, until January 1, 2027, and upon appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish the Unicorn Homes Transitional Housing for Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth Program, to be administered by local community-based organizations that provide a majority of its services to the LGBTQ+ community. The bill would require the department to fund community-based organizations in the participating Counties of San Diego and Sacramento that provide transitional housing for LGBTQ+ youth, 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, experiencing homelessness due to family rejection, with the ultimate goal of reunification with the youth's original family. The bill would require the community-based organization to place eligible youth with volunteer host families who meet specified criteria, pursuant to the results of a background check, and who are able to provide crisis intervention with a trauma-informed approach, as defined, to their care. The bill would also require the program to comply with the existing core components of Housing First. The bill would require each community-based organization to prepare and submit an annual report to the department, with the first report due on or before December 1, 2024, and a final report due on or before June 30, 2026, which would be required to include specified information, including the number of times the organization was contacted by youths, how many of those contacts became participants in the program, and how many of those initial contacts became repeat contacts. The bill would also require the department to compile the annual reports into a final report, to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2026.
Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
Vetoed by Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3191.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2454.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 1).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1991.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 18).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25).
Measure version as amended on April 19 corrected.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.
Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and HUM. S.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB589 | HTML |
| 02/09/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/12/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/19/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/27/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/26/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 09/12/23 - Enrolled |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/17/23- Assembly Housing and Community Development | |
| 04/26/23- Assembly Human Services | |
| 05/08/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/24/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/15/23- Senate Housing | |
| 06/30/23- Senate Human Services | |
| 08/11/23- Senate Appropriations | |
| 09/02/23- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 09/07/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 10/20/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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