Bill > AB71

This bill, the Bring California Home Act, has several key provisions: 1) It establishes a Bring California Home Fund in the State Treasury, funded by revenue generated from changes to the state's Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law related to global intangible low-taxed income and repatriation income. This revenue is continuously appropriated to the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to implement and administer the program. 2) The bill restructures the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council and requires it to conduct a statewide analysis of homelessness data and needs, convene a funder's workgroup to align state agencies and departments, and administer allocations to counties/continuums of care and large cities to provide rental assistance, operating subsidies, housing navigation services, and other eligible activities. 3) The bill sets requirements for the use of funds, performance outcomes, and reporting by recipients, and allows the Council to provide technical assistance and award bonus funding based on recipients meeting their goals. 4) The bill also requires the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal approval for a Medi-Cal benefit to fund housing navigation, transition, and sustaining services for Medi-Cal beneficiaries experiencing homelessness. The overall intent of the bill is to make homelessness in California "rare, brief, and nonrecurrent" by scaling up evidence-based housing and services solutions, eliminating racial and gender disparities, and establishing greater collaboration and flexibility in the state's response to homelessness.

Budget and Finance, Housing and Urban Affairs

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