Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 844Introduced by Assembly Member BurkeFebruary 16, 2017 An act to add Section 11761 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to marijuana. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 844, as amended, Burke. California Marijuana Tax Fund: funding for support system navigation services: minimum performance standards.(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 64, among other things, establishes the California Marijuana Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts imposed by AUMA. AUMA requires, after other specified disbursements are made from the fund, the Controller to disburse funds to the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz. AUMA requires GO-Biz, in consultation with other specified state entities, to administer grants to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.This bill would amend AUMA by requiring applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in AUMA, to meet specific minimum performance standards as a condition of grant eligibility, including, among other standards, operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.(2) AUMA authorizes legislative amendment of its provisions with a2/3 vote of both houses of the Legislature, without submission to the voters, to further its purposes and intent.This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1.The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(b)The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(c)It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.SEC. 2.SECTION 1. Section 11761 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.SEC. 3.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, for the following reason:This act would ensure that grant recipients for system navigation services, as provided for in the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2017 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 844Introduced by Assembly Member BurkeFebruary 16, 2017 An act to add Section 11761 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to marijuana. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 844, as amended, Burke. California Marijuana Tax Fund: funding for support system navigation services: minimum performance standards.(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 64, among other things, establishes the California Marijuana Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts imposed by AUMA. AUMA requires, after other specified disbursements are made from the fund, the Controller to disburse funds to the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz. AUMA requires GO-Biz, in consultation with other specified state entities, to administer grants to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.This bill would amend AUMA by requiring applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in AUMA, to meet specific minimum performance standards as a condition of grant eligibility, including, among other standards, operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.(2) AUMA authorizes legislative amendment of its provisions with a2/3 vote of both houses of the Legislature, without submission to the voters, to further its purposes and intent.This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2017
Amended IN Assembly May 01, 2017
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 844
Introduced by Assembly Member BurkeFebruary 16, 2017
Introduced by Assembly Member Burke
February 16, 2017
An act to add Section 11761 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to marijuana.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 844, as amended, Burke. California Marijuana Tax Fund: funding for support system navigation services: minimum performance standards.
(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 64, among other things, establishes the California Marijuana Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts imposed by AUMA. AUMA requires, after other specified disbursements are made from the fund, the Controller to disburse funds to the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz. AUMA requires GO-Biz, in consultation with other specified state entities, to administer grants to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.This bill would amend AUMA by requiring applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in AUMA, to meet specific minimum performance standards as a condition of grant eligibility, including, among other standards, operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.(2) AUMA authorizes legislative amendment of its provisions with a2/3 vote of both houses of the Legislature, without submission to the voters, to further its purposes and intent.This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
(1) Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 64, among other things, establishes the California Marijuana Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts imposed by AUMA. AUMA requires, after other specified disbursements are made from the fund, the Controller to disburse funds to the Governors Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz. AUMA requires GO-Biz, in consultation with other specified state entities, to administer grants to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.
This bill would amend AUMA by requiring applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in AUMA, to meet specific minimum performance standards as a condition of grant eligibility, including, among other standards, operate 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
(2) AUMA authorizes legislative amendment of its provisions with a2/3 vote of both houses of the Legislature, without submission to the voters, to further its purposes and intent.
This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1.The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(b)The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(c)It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.SEC. 2.SECTION 1. Section 11761 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.SEC. 3.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, for the following reason:This act would ensure that grant recipients for system navigation services, as provided for in the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a)The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.
(b)The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.
(c)It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
SEC. 2.SECTION 1. Section 11761 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
SEC. 2.SECTION 1. Section 11761 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
### SEC. 2.SECTION 1.
11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
11761. (a) Applicants The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 201819 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 202223 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.
(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.
(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
(b) Applicants for grants to support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, shall meet all of the following minimum performance standards as a condition of eligibility to be awarded a grant:
(1) Demonstrated experience serving the targeted population and utilization of trained professionals to administer system navigation services.
(2) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and specific capability of providing system navigation services in languages that are primarily spoken in the geographical area served.
(3) Operation 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, for the following reason:This act would ensure that grant recipients for system navigation services, as provided for in the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, for the following reason:This act would ensure that grant recipients for system navigation services, as provided for in the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.
SEC. 3.SEC. 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act furthers the purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, for the following reason:
### SEC. 3.SEC. 2.
This act would ensure that grant recipients for system navigation services, as provided for in the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA.