AB 1932 California 20252026 session

Department of Social Services: C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services in the Health and Welfare Agency and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of various programs relating to public social services. Existing law, until June 30, 2026, enacts the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems Act, or the C.R.I.S.E.S. Act, for purposes of creating, implementing, and evaluating the C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program, which the act establishes. Existing law requires the department to administer the program if appropriate funding is made available to the department. Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2023, the department to award grants to qualified grantees, which include city, county, and tribal departments of social services, disability services, health services, public health, or behavioral health, based on grant eligibility criteria developed in partnership with a stakeholder workgroup. This bill would extend the C.R.I.S.E.S. Grant Pilot Program to June 30, 2032. The bill would require the department to administer the program if appropriate funding is made available in the annual Budget Act. The bill would require the department to award grants to grantees, which are community-based organizations, in consultation with stakeholders prior to January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter subject to appropriate funding. The bill would require the department, upon allocation of funding to eligible entities, to report to the Legislature and to post publicly on its internet website information about the grants funded, as specified. The bill would require the stakeholder workgroup to meet at least quarterly and perform specified functions, including partnering with the department to evaluate and make appropriate changes to criteria for qualified grantees. The bill would require the department to review and fill vacancies for appointments to the stakeholder workgroup, as specified. The bill would require the department to fill ongoing vacancies to the stakeholder workgroup within 90 days of the vacancy. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2032, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2033. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.