AB 1682: State government: Department of Justice: Children's Justice Fund.

Session Year: 2017-2018
House: Assembly

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Existing law establishes the Attorney General as the head of the Department of Justice. There is in the Department of Justice a Bureau of Childrens Justice. The bureau investigates and enforces the legal rights of children, including the enforcement of civil rights laws and state criminal laws relating to child abuse and human trafficking.

This bill would create in the State Treasury the Childrens Justice Fund for the deposit of penalty moneys that are recovered pursuant to any action or settlement of a claim brought by the Bureau of Childrens Justice. Subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the bill would require those moneys to be expended by the bureau for specified purposes.

Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program as a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this law.

Discussed in Hearing