Homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel teams.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on fee amounts for enforcement, only that they are reasonable administrative costs.

Homeless Adult and Family Multidisciplinary Personnel Teams

The bill allows cities designated as local health jurisdictions to establish multidisciplinary personnel teams for homeless adults and families, similar to what counties can already do. It also includes provisions related to suspending cannabis business licenses if they fail to pay for goods or services from other licensed businesses based on court orders.

What This Bill Does

• Allows cities that are local health jurisdictions to create teams of professionals to help homeless people find housing and support services.
• Requires these city teams to follow rules about sharing private information to coordinate care for homeless individuals.
• Adds a rule that the Department of Cannabis Control can suspend licenses if cannabis businesses do not pay for goods or services they receive from other licensed businesses, based on court orders or judgments.

Who It Names or Affects

• Homeless individuals and families in cities that are local health jurisdictions.
• Cities designated as local health jurisdictions.
• Cannabis businesses licensed by the state of California.

Terms To Know

Multidisciplinary personnel team

A group made up of different types of professionals who work together to help homeless people find housing and support services.

Local health jurisdiction

A city that has been given the authority by the state to manage public health issues within its area.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify which cities will be designated as local health jurisdictions.
• It is unclear how many cannabis businesses might have their licenses suspended under these new rules.
• The exact amount of fees the Department of Cannabis Control can charge has not been set.

Official Summary Text

SB 479, as amended, Arreguín.
Cannabis: licensing: payment of goods and services.
Homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel teams.
Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care. Existing law requires the sharing of confidential information to be governed by protocols developed in each county describing how and what information may be shared by the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, and requires each county to provide a copy of its protocols to the State Department of Social Services.
This bill would additionally authorize a city that is designated as a local health jurisdiction to similarly establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. Existing law, the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), establishes the Department of Cannabis Control (department) within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act.
MAUCRSA, among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA requires licensees to keep accurate records of commercial cannabis
activity, including recording the sale or transport of cannabis or cannabis products from one licensee to another licensee on a sales invoice or receipt. MAUCRSA authorizes the department to suspend, revoke, place on probation with terms and conditions, or otherwise discipline licenses issued by the department and fine a licensee, as specified.
This bill, the Cannabis Payment Protection Act, would require the department to suspend the license of a licensee subject to a court order or civil judgment for failure to pay for goods and services sold or transferred by another licensee, if specified conditions are met, until the licensee complies with the terms of the court order or civil judgment. The bill would authorize the department to charge a fee to cover the reasonable administrative costs of implementing these provisions, as specified.
AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a
2
3
vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent.
This bill would state that the bill furthers the purposes and intent of AUMA.

Current Bill Text

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