30035. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Upon release from custody, offenders who are incarcerated for felony or misdemeanor convictions generally return to their communities of last residence. (b) Providing released offenders with transitional housing services in tandem with support services that include, but are not limited to, employment counseling, job training, continuing […]
30035.1. (a) There is hereby established the Community-Based Transitional Housing Program, to be administered by the Department of Finance. As used in this chapter, “program” means the Community-Based Transitional Housing Program and “department” means the Department of Finance. (b) Eligibility to apply to participate in the program shall be limited to cities, counties, and cities and counties. […]
30035.2. In order for a city, county, or city and county to receive funds pursuant to the program, the facility for which it has approved a conditional use permit or other local entitlement pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 30035.3 shall meet all of the following criteria: (a) The facility shall provide transitional […]
30035.3. (a) (1) Applications for program funding shall be submitted to the department, in the form and manner specified by the department, no earlier than October 1, 2016, and no later than October 1, 2018. (2) (A) Each application shall be accompanied by a copy of a resolution adopted by the county board of supervisors or the city council, […]
30035.4. (a) The department shall approve or deny each application received pursuant to Section 30035.3 within 90 days of receipt and, if the application is approved, shall determine the amount of funding to be provided to each applicant city, county, or city and county, subject to subdivision (a) of Section 30035.5. The department’s decision to approve […]
30035.5. (a) The department shall award to a city, county, or city and county, the application of which the department has approved pursuant to Section 30035.4, up to two million dollars ($2,000,000). An applicant city, county, or city and county shall specify in its application the amount for which they are applying, as required by paragraph […]
30035.6. (a) No later than November 1, 2017, and each subsequent November 1 until November 1, 2020, the department shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee detailing all of the following for the preceding fiscal year: (1) The number of applications for program funding received by the department. (2) The number of applications for program […]
30035.7. (a) Of the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act or other measure for the program, the department’s Office of State Audits and Evaluations may use up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to conduct an audit of the program to determine its effectiveness in providing services to ex-offenders. (b) The department’s Office of State Audits […]
30035.8. Any action by the department to adopt and update instructions to any state or local agency for the purpose of carrying out the department’s obligations pursuant to this chapter constitutes a department action to adopt and update instructions for the preparation, development, or administration of the state budget pursuant to Section 11357 and is […]
