AB 2843: Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program.
- Session Year: 2021-2022
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2022-04-28
Existing law makes a person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services guilty of the crime of human trafficking and subject to imprisonment and a specified fine.
This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, create the Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services to assist local and tribal governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, as specified. Under the bill, grants would be awarded on a competitive basis and would only be awarded to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of the grant program. The bill would require a county that receives grant funds pursuant to this program to submit an annual year-end report to the Office of Emergency Services detailing, among other things, a summary of anti-human trafficking activities and programs funded with the awarded grant funds. The bill would additionally require the Controller to review all the year-end reports submitted by participating counties, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to determine if grant funds are being utilized in a manner consistent with the program. The bill would prohibit any county that fails to comply with the report requirements or fails to use funds consistent with the grant program from receiving any funds through this program for one year. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1 of each year, a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county, including, among other things, the number of human trafficking arrests and the number of human trafficking survivors connected to services for each respective county.
Existing law makes a person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services guilty of the crime of human trafficking and subject to imprisonment and a specified fine.
This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, create the Human Trafficking Prosecution Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services to assist local and tribal governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, as specified. Under the bill, grants would be awarded on a competitive basis and would only be awarded to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of the grant program. The bill would require a county that receives grant funds pursuant to this program to submit an annual year-end report to the Controller Office of Emergency Services detailing, among other things, a summary of antihuman anti-human trafficking activities and programs funded with the awarded grant funds. The bill would additionally require the Controller to review all the year-end reports submitted by participating counties, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to determine if grant funds are being utilized in a manner consistent with the program. The bill would prohibit any county that fails to comply with the report requirements or fails to use funds consistent with the grant program from receiving any funds through this program for one year. The bill would require the Controller Office of Emergency Services to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1 of each year, a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county. county, including, among other things, the number of human trafficking arrests and the number of human trafficking survivors connected to services for each respective county.
Existing law makes a person who deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent to obtain forced labor or services guilty of the crime of human trafficking and subject to imprisonment and a specified fine.
This bill would, upon appropriation of the Legislature, create the Human Trafficking Prosecution Grant Program to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services to assist local governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, as specified. Under the bill, grants would be awarded on a competitive basis and would only be awarded to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of the grant program. The bill would require a county that receives grant funds pursuant to this program to submit an annual year-end report to the Controller detailing, among other things, a summary of antihuman trafficking activities and programs funded with the awarded grant funds. The bill would additionally require the Controller to review all the year-end reports submitted by participating counties, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to determine if grant funds are being utilized in a manner consistent with the program. The bill would prohibit any county that fails to comply with the report requirements or fails to use funds consistent with the grant program from receiving any funds through this program for one year. The bill would require the Controller to prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1 of each year, a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county.
Existing law establishes state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and authorizes the department to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.Existing law establishes state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and authorizes the department to contract for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
(a)The Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program is hereby created under the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The purpose of the grant program is to assist local and tribal governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, including the identification of all human trafficking victims and providing access to comprehensive supportive services for all survivors, prevention efforts, investigations, and prosecution of human trafficking crimes at the local, state, and tribal level.
(c)For the purposes of this chapter, article, human trafficking has the same meaning as defined in Section 236.1 of the Penal Code.
8590.85.(a)The grant program shall be administered by the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The office shall award grants on a competitive basis. The board shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants that shall take into consideration a jurisdictions capacity and commitment to coordinate a multiagency, multijurisdictional approach to all of the following:
(1)Identification of victims of human trafficking.
(2)Victim-centered investigations and prosecution.
(3)Provision of, or referral to, confidential victim services.
(4)Public awareness, outreach, and training regarding human trafficking.
(c)The office shall only award grants to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of this program.
8590.9.(a)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall be expended exclusively to fund programs that enhance the capacity of local police and prosecutors to identify human trafficking, successfully investigate and prosecute human trafficking crimes, and provide comprehensive support services for human trafficking survivors.
(b)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall not be expended to offset a reduction in any other source of funds, nor any other purpose not authorized under this chapter. article.
(c)Grant funding may be used to support dedicated prosecutorial resources and dedicated law enforcement resources required for preparation for and participation in human trafficking investigations that incorporate a range of advanced investigative methods, criminal intelligence gathering, and active collaboration from victim service providers, prosecutors, and key multidisciplinary partners, and outreach to vulnerable populations.
(d)Any recipient of grant funds shall employ victim-centered and trauma-informed practices to prevent retraumatization of human trafficking survivors.
8590.93.(a)A county that receives funding from the grant program shall issue a fiscal year-end report to the Office of Emergency Services on August 1 of each year. The report shall include a detailed accounting of the grant funds received and expended in the immediately preceding fiscal year, including, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1)The amount of grant funds received and expended.
(2)The total expenditures of grant funds by the county and the details of expenditures made by the county, including salaries and expenses, purchase of equipment and supplies, and any other expenditures made listed by type with an explanatory comment.
(3)A summary of the anti-human trafficking activities and other anti-human trafficking programs funded with the moneys allocated.
(4)The total number of human trafficking arrests during the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5)The total number of human trafficking arrests, broken down by labor trafficking and sex trafficking offenses.
(6)The total number of human trafficking prosecutions and the total number of human trafficking convictions, broken down by labor trafficking and sex trafficking offenses.
(6)(7)The total number of human trafficking survivors rescued.
(7)(8)The total number of human trafficking survivors connected to victim services.
(8)(9)A total of any additional unexpended grant funds.
(b)Each county that fails to submit the report by August 1 of each year shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the offices determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(c)On September 1 of each year, the office shall provide the Controller with copies of the year-end reports submitted by the counties and, in consultation with the Controller, shall review the fiscal end-year reports submitted by each county to determine if moneys from the grant program are being utilized in a manner consistent with this section. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is not consistent with this section, the Controller shall consult with the participating counties designated regional coordinators. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is still not consistent with this section, the county shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the Controllers determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(d)If the Controller determines that a county shall not be eligible to receive funds pursuant to subdivision (c), the Controller shall inform the office on or before September 1 of that same year that the county is ineligible to receive funds.
(e)On or before January 1 of each year, the office shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county that includes all of the following:
(1)The total number of grants received by each county and moneys received by each county.
(2)The total expenditures of grant funds by each county and the details of expenditures made by each county, including salaries and expenses, purchase of equipment and supplies, and any other expenditures made.
(3)A summary of the anti-human trafficking activities and other anti-human trafficking programs funded with the moneys allocated, broken down by county.
(4)The total number of human trafficking arrests during the immediately preceding fiscal year, broken down by labor trafficking and sex trafficking offenses, and broken down by county.
(5)The total number of human trafficking survivors rescued, broken down by county.
(6)A total of any additional unexpended grant funds, broken down by county.
(f)For the purposes of this section, a designated regional coordinator means the agency designated by the participating countys board of supervisors as the agency in control of its countywide human trafficking prevention efforts.
8590.95.This chapter article shall be operative upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(a)The Human Trafficking Prosecution Regional Task Forces Against Human Trafficking Grant Program is hereby created under the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The purpose of the grant program is to assist local and tribal governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, including prevention efforts, investigations, and prosecution. the identification of all human trafficking victims and providing access to comprehensive supportive services for all survivors, prevention efforts, investigations, and prosecution of human trafficking crimes at the local, state, and tribal level.
(c)For the purposes of this chapter, human trafficking has the same meaning as defined in Section 236.1 of the Penal Code.
8590.85.(a)The grant program shall be administered by the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The office shall award grants on a competitive basis. The board shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants that shall take into consideration a jurisdictions capacity and commitment to coordinate law enforcement efforts and prosecution of human trafficking in a manner consistent with the purposes of this chapter. a multiagency, multijurisdictional approach to all of the following:
(1)Identification of victims of human trafficking.
(2)Victim-centered investigations and prosecution.
(3)Provision of, or referral to, confidential victim services.
(4)Public awareness, outreach, and training regarding human trafficking.
(c)The office shall only award grants to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of this program.
8590.9.(a)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall be expended exclusively to fund programs that enhance the capacity of local police and prosecutors to deter, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking. identify human trafficking, successfully investigate and prosecute human trafficking crimes, and provide comprehensive support services for human trafficking survivors.
(b)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall not be expended to offset a reduction in any other source of funds, nor any other purpose not authorized under this chapter.
(c)Grant funding may be used to support dedicated prosecutorial resources and dedicated law enforcement resources required for preparation for and participation in human trafficking investigations. investigations that incorporate a range of advanced investigative methods, criminal intelligence gathering, and active collaboration from victim service providers, prosecutors, and key multidisciplinary partners, and outreach to vulnerable populations.
(d)Any recipient of grant funds shall employ best practices victim-centered and trauma-informed practices to prevent retraumatization of human trafficking victims. survivors.
8590.93.(a)A county that receives funding from the grant program shall issue a fiscal year-end report to the Controller Office of Emergency Services on August 1 of each year. The report shall include a detailed accounting of the grant funds received and expended in the immediately preceding fiscal year, including, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1)The amount of grant funds received and expended.
(2)The total expenditures of grant funds by the county and the details of expenditures made by the county, including salaries and expenses, purchase of equipment and supplies, and any other expenditures made listed by type with an explanatory comment.
(3)A summary of the antihuman anti-human trafficking activities and other antihuman anti-human trafficking programs funded with the moneys allocated.
(4)The total number of human trafficking arrests during the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5)The total number of human trafficking arrests, broken down by labor trafficking and sex trafficking offenses.
(5)(6)The total number of human trafficking victims survivors rescued.
(7)The total number of human trafficking survivors connected to victim services.
(6)(8)A total of any additional unexpended grant funds.
(b)Each county that fails to submit the report by August 1 of each year shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the Controllers offices determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(c)On September 1 of each year, the Controller office shall provide the office Controller with copies of the year-end reports submitted by the counties and, in consultation with the office, Controller, shall review the fiscal end-year reports submitted by each county to determine if moneys from the grant program are being utilized in a manner consistent with this section. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is not consistent with this section, the Controller shall consult with the participating counties designated regional coordinators. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is still not consistent with this section, the county shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the Controllers determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(d)If the Controller determines that a county shall not be eligible to receive funds pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c), the Controller shall inform the office on or before September 1 of that same year that the county is ineligible to receive funds.
(e)On or before January 1 of each year, the Controller office shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county that includes the all of the following:
(1)The total number of grants received by each county and moneys received by each county.
(2)The total expenditures of grant funds by each county and the details of expenditures made by each county, including salaries and expenses, purchase of equipment and supplies, and any other expenditures made.
(3)A summary of the anti-human trafficking activities and other anti-human trafficking programs funded with the moneys allocated, broken down by county.
(4)The total number of human trafficking arrests during the immediately preceding fiscal year, broken down by labor trafficking and sex trafficking offenses, and broken down by county.
(5)The total number of human trafficking survivors rescued, broken down by county.
(6)A total of any additional unexpended grant funds, broken down by county.
(f)For the purposes of this section, a designated regional coordinator means the agency designated by the participating countys board of supervisors as the agency in control of its countywide human trafficking prevention efforts.
8590.95.This chapter shall be operative upon appropriation by the Legislature.
(a)The Human Trafficking Prosecution Grant Program is hereby created under the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The purpose of the grant program is to assist local governments with creating and funding multiagency, multijurisdictional efforts to eliminate human trafficking, including prevention efforts, investigations, and prosecution.
8590.85.(a)The grant program shall be administered by the Office of Emergency Services.
(b)The office shall award grants on a competitive basis. The board shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants that shall take into consideration a jurisdictions capacity and commitment to coordinate law enforcement efforts and prosecution of human trafficking in a manner consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(c)The office shall only award grants to counties that have adopted a resolution to create a multiagency, multijurisdictional task force to further the purposes of this program.
8590.9.(a)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall be expended exclusively to fund programs that enhance the capacity of local police and prosecutors to deter, investigate, and prosecute human trafficking.
(b)Grant funding awarded to a county under this program shall not be expended to offset a reduction in any other source of funds, nor any other purpose not authorized under this chapter.
(c)Grant funding may be used to support dedicated prosecutorial resources and dedicated law enforcement resources required for preparation for and participation in human trafficking investigations.
(d)Any recipient of grant funds shall employ best practices to prevent retraumatization of human trafficking victims.
8590.93.(a)A county that receives funding from the grant program shall issue a fiscal year-end report to the Controller on August 1 of each year. The report shall include a detailed accounting of the grant funds received and expended in the immediately preceding fiscal year, including, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1)The amount of grant funds received and expended.
(2)The total expenditures of grant funds by the county and the details of expenditures made by the county, including salaries and expenses, purchase of equipment and supplies, and any other expenditures made listed by type with an explanatory comment.
(3)A summary of the antihuman trafficking activities and other antihuman trafficking programs funded with the moneys allocated.
(4)The total number of human trafficking arrests during the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5)The total number of human trafficking victims rescued.
(6)A total of any additional unexpended grant funds.
(b)Each county that fails to submit the report by August 1 of each year shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the Controllers determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(c)On September 1 of each year, the Controller shall provide the office with copies of the year-end reports submitted by the counties and, in consultation with the office, shall review the fiscal end-year reports submitted by each county to determine if moneys from the grant program are being utilized in a manner consistent with this section. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is not consistent with this section, the Controller shall consult with the participating counties designated regional coordinators. If the Controller determines the use of the funds is still not consistent with this section, the county shall not be eligible to receive funds for one year, commencing on July 1 following the Controllers determination that a county has failed to submit the record.
(d)If the Controller determines that a county shall not be eligible to receive funds pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c), the Controller shall inform the office on or before September 1 of that same year that the county is ineligible to receive funds.
(e)On or before January 1 of each year, the Controller shall prepare and submit to the Legislature a revenue and expenditure summary for each participating county that includes the total number of grants received by each county and moneys received by each county.
(f)For the purposes of this section, a designated regional coordinator means the agency designated by the participating countys board of supervisors as the agency in control of its countywide human trafficking prevention efforts.
8590.95.This chapter shall be operative upon appropriation by the Legislature.
SECTION 1.Section 2051 of the Penal Code is amended to read:2051.(a)The department may contract for a term of not more than one year for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and all other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons. Contracts shall be limited to bona fide dealers in the several classes for which articles are contracted. Contracts shall be awarded to the lowest bidder at a public letting if the price bid is a fair and reasonable one and not greater than the usual value and prices.(b)Each bid shall be accompanied by security as required by the department, conditional upon the bidder entering into a contract upon the terms of the bid, on notice of the acceptance and furnishing a penal bond with sufficient sureties in a sum required by the department, and that satisfies the department that the contractor will faithfully perform the contract.(c)If the proper officer of the prison rejects the articles because they do not comply with the contract, or if a bidder fails to furnish the articles when required, the proper officer of the prison may buy other articles of the kind rejected or called for, in the open market, and deduct the price thereof, over the contract price, from the amount due to the bidder, or may charge the bidder for the new articles.(d)Notice of the time, place, and conditions of the letting of contracts shall be given for at least two consecutive weeks in two newspapers printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco, and in one newspaper printed and published in the County of Sacramento, and in the county where the prison to be supplied is situated.(e)If all of the bids are deemed unreasonably high, the department may, in its discretion, decline to contract and may advertise for proposals pursuant to this section again until satisfactory contracts are made. Until contracts are extended, the department may contract with anyone whose offer is regarded as just and equitable or may purchase in the open market.(f)The department shall not accept a bid or enter into a contract when the bid is higher than any other bid at the same letting for the same class or schedule of articles, quality considered, and when a contract can be had at the lower bid.(g)If two or more bids for the same articles are equal in amount, the department may select the one that, all things considered, the department determines is in the best interest of the state, or it may divide the contract between the bidders.(h)The department may award a contract in the aggregate or it may segregate the items and enter into a contract with the bidder or bidders who bid lowest on the several articles.(i)The department may reject the bid of a person who had a prior contract and who did not, in the opinion of the department, faithfully comply with the prior contract.(a)The department is hereby authorized to may contract for a term of not more than one year for provisions, clothing, medicines, forage, fuel, and all other staple supplies needed for the support of the prisons for any period of time, not exceeding one year, and such contracts prisons. Contracts shall be limited to bona fide dealers in the several classes of articles contracted for. Contracts for such articles as the department may desire to contract for, for which articles are contracted. Contracts shall be given awarded to the lowest bidder at a public letting thereof, if the price bid is a fair and reasonable one, one and not greater than the usual value and prices.
Each(b)Each bid shall be accompanied by such security as the department may require, required by the department, conditional upon the bidder entering into a contract upon the terms of his the bid, on notice of the acceptance thereof, and furnishing a penal bond with good and sufficient sureties in such sum as the department may require, a sum required by the department, and to its satisfaction that he that satisfies the department that the contractor will faithfully perform his the contract.
If(c)If the proper officer of the prison reject any article, as not complying rejects the articles because they do not comply with the contract, or if a bidder fail fails to furnish the articles awarded to him when required, the proper officer of the prison may buy other articles of the kind rejected or called for, in the open market, and deduct the price thereof, over the contract price, from the amount due to the bidder, or may charge the same up against him. bidder for the new articles.
Notice(d)Notice of the time, place, and conditions of the letting of contracts shall be given for at least two consecutive weeks in two newspapers printed and published in the City and County of San Francisco, and in one newspaper printed and published in the County of Sacramento, and in the county where the prison to be supplied is situated.
If all the bids made at such letting(e)If all of the bids are deemed unreasonably high, the department may, in its discretion, decline to contract and may again advertise for such time and in such papers as it sees proper for proposals, and may so continue to renew the advertisement advertise for proposals pursuant to this section again until satisfactory contracts are made; and in the meantime made. Until contracts are extended, the department may contract with anyone whose offer is regarded as just and equitable, equitable or may purchase in the open market.
No bids shall be accepted, nor a contract entered into in pursuance thereof,(f)The department shall not accept a bid or enter into a contract when such the bid is higher than any other bid at the same letting for the same class or schedule of articles, quality considered, and when a contract can be had at such the lower bid.
When(g)If two or more bids for the same article or articles are equal in amount, the department may select the one which, that, all things considered, may by it be thought best for the the department determines is in the best interest of the State, state, or it may divide the contract between the bidders as in its judgment may seem proper and right. bidders.
The(h)The department shall have power to let may award a contract in the aggregate or they it may segregate the items, items and enter into a contract with the bidder or bidders who may bid lowest on the several articles.
The(i)The department shall have the power to may reject the bid of any a person who had a prior contract and who had did not, in the opinion of the department, faithfully complied therewith. comply with the prior contract.
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| May 19, 2022 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| May 11, 2022 | In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. |
| May 2, 2022 | Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Apr 28, 2022 | Read second time and amended. |
| Apr 27, 2022 | From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Apr 20, 2022 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Referred to Com. on PUB. S. |
| Feb 19, 2022 | From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Introduced. To print. |
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