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FL S1130

Bill

Status

Failed

3/9/2012

Primary Sponsor

Ronda Storms

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds voluntary $1 contributions to aid the homeless on motor vehicle registration, driver's license applications, and license renewal forms, with funds deposited into the Grants and Donations Trust Fund of the Department of Children and Family Services.

  • Creates a homelessness prevention grant program providing emergency financial assistance to families facing loss of housing, with maximum grants of $300,000 per lead agency and administrative costs capped at 3 percent.

  • Requires lead agencies to track and monitor assisted families for at least 12 months after assistance ends, with a goal that at least 85 percent of families remain housed and avoid homelessness during the ensuing year.

  • Limits lead agencies to spending a maximum of 8 percent of funding on administrative costs and removes background check and addiction rehabilitation requirements from the Housing First approach to homelessness.

  • Repeals the existing emergency assistance program for families that have lost shelter or face loss of shelter due to an emergency, effective July 1, 2012.

Legislative Description

Homelessness

Last Action

Died in Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations

3/9/2012

Committee Referrals

Health And Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee2/14/2012
Budget2/13/2012
Transportation1/23/2012
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs1/10/2012

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