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Phil Batchelor, County Administrator Costa
FROM: Costa
County
March 15, 1994
DATE: chi i�
SUBJECT: LEGISLATION:; AB 2573 (Pringle) RE RESTRICTIONS ON THE
COUNTY'S ABILITY TO LIMIT GENERAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS IN SHARED
HOUSING SITUATIONS
SPECIFIC REOUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)'&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
ADOPT a position .in OPPOSITION to AB 2573 by Assemblyman Pringle,
which would limit`; the application of the shared housing. reductions
to multiple GA recipients to couples who are married to each other.
BACKGROUND:
Under current law, the County is authorized to reduce the General
Assistance (GA) grant to any recipient(s) who are. sharing housing
with one or more other individuals . This is also true with two
individuals on GA'who may sharing housing with other individuals
who are not on GA. Assemblyman Pringle has introduced AB 2573
which would limit the County's ability to reduce the GA grant in
cases where two individuals are on GA and are sharing housing with
other individuals. In these cases, AB 2573 would require that the
two GA recipients be married to each other before the County could
apply the shared housing reduction.
Many GA recipients who share housing are not married to each other.
To require that the recipients be .married to each other before the
shared -housing reduction can be applied makes no sense. For
instance, it would not apply to a case where two siblings are on GA
and are living with their parents.
County Counsel has noted that the bill would introduce uncertainty
into the meaning and application of the statute and would
undoubtedly lead" to costly litigation. In addition, AB 2573
continues a January 1, 1995 sunset date for the entire section
authorizing a shared housing reduction.
For these reasons; we recommend that the Board of Supervisors adopt
a position in opposition to AB 2573 .
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Social Services Director
County Counsel
Les Spahnn, Heim,,, Noack & Spahnn BY L DEPUTY
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-1993-94 REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILL No. 2573
Introduced by Assembly Member Pringle
January 25, 1994
An act to amend and repeal Section 17001.5 of the Welfare
and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2573, as introduced, Pringle. General assistance:
shared housing.
Under existing law, each county is charged with the duty to
relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons
and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully
resident therein, when those persons are not supported and
relieved by their relatives or friends., by their own means, or
by statehospitals or other state or private institutions. Under
existing law, generally, the administration of county relief to
indigents is vested exclusively in the county supervisors, who
have the discretion to determine eligibility for, and the type
and amount of, and conditions to be attached to, indigent
<s ,? > relief.
Existing law authorizes the county board of supervisors to
reduce county general assistance for shared housing in certain
circumstances.
This bill would define shared housing for that purpose.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
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AB 2573 — 2 —
The
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 17001.5 of the Welfare and
2 Institutions Code is amended to read:
3 17001.5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
4 law, including, but not limited to, Section 17000.5, the
5 board of supervisors of each county, or the agency
6 authorized by the county charter, may do any of the
7 following:
8 (1) (A) Adopt residency requirements for purposes
9 of determining a persons's eligibility for general
10 assistance. Any residence requirement under this
11 paragraph shall not exceed 15 days.
12 (B) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
13 authorize the adoption of a requirement that an
14 applicant or recipient have an address or to require a
15 homeless person to acquire an address.
16 (2) (A) Establish a standard of general assistance for
17 applicants and recipients who share housing with one or
18 more unrelated persons or with one or more persons who
19 are not legally responsible for the applicant or recipient.
20 The standard of general assistance aid established
21 pursuant to Section 17000,.5 for et she any single adult
22 recipient or two recipients who are married to each
23 other may be reduced pursuant to this paragraph by not
24 more than the following percentages, as appropriate:
25 (i) Fifteen percent if the recipient sees or
26 recipients share housing with one other person described
27 in this subparagraph.
28 (ii) Twenty percent if the recipient sees or
29 recipients share housing with two other persons
30 described in this subparagraph.
31 (iii) Twenty-five percent if the recipient shares or
32 recipients share housing with three or more other
33 persons described in this subparagraph.
34 (B) Any standard of aid adopted pursuant to this
35 paragraph shall constitute a sufficient standard of aid for
36 any recipient who shares housing.
37 (C) Counties with shared housing reductions larger
38 than the amounts specified in subparagraph (A) as of
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1 August 19, 1992, may continue to apply those
2 adjustments.
and 3 (3) Discontinue aid under this part for a period of not
4 more than 180 days with respect to any recipient who is
n of 5 able bodied and mentally competent and has received
the 6 aid under this part for three months if the recipient
.ncy 7 engages in any of the following conduct:
the 8 1 (A) Fails, or refuses, without good cause, to participate
9 in a qualified job training program, participation of which
oses 10 is a condition of receipt of assistance.
.eral 11 (B) After completion of a job training program, fails,
this 12 or refuses, without good cause, to accept an offer of
13 appropriate employment.
3 to 14 (C) Persistently fails, or refuses, without good cause,
an 15 to cooperate with the county in its efforts to do any of the
re a 16 following:
17 (i) Enroll the recipient in a job training program.
for 18 (ii) After completion of a job training program, locate
e or 19 and secure appropriate employment for the recipient.
who 20 (D) For purposes of this paragraph, lackof good cause
ent. 21 may be demonstrated by a showing of any of the
;hed 22 following:
dult 23 (i) The willful failure, or refusal, of the recipient to
,ach 24 participate in a job training program, accept appropriate
not 25 employment, or cooperate in enrolling in a training
26 program or locating employment.
or 27 (ii) Not less than three separate acts of negligent
.bed 28 failure of the recipient to engage in any of the activities
29 described in clause (i) .
or 30 (4) Notwithstanding paragraph (3), discontinue aid
sons 31 to, or sanction, recipients for failure or refusal without
32 good cause to follow program requirements. For
B or 33 purposes of this subdivision, lack of good cause may be
ther 34 demonstrated by a showing of either (A) willful failure or
35 refusal of the recipient to follow program requirements,
this 36 or (B) not less than three separate acts of negligent
I for 37 failure of the recipient to follow program requirements.
38 (b) _ ef€eetatra� �;
rger 39 1995, aftd sal have fte feree e- meet elf of after-
sOf 40 Elate, unlessezlater- enaeted statt4e, whieh is eneteted
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AB 2573 — 4 -
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4 -1 berme Jan4; 4995; deletes e - emtends thitt dftte For
2 purposes of this section, shared housing shall include any
3 residence, housing unit, apartment,-or other dwelling or
4 part thereof used for residential purposes by the
5 recipient or recipients and any other person.
6 (c) This section shall remain in effect only, until
7 January 1, 1995, and as of that date is repealed, unless a
8 later enacted statute, which is enacted before January 1,
9 1995, deletes or extends that date.
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