Report 2019-104 Recommendation Responses
Report 2019-104: Youth Experiencing Homelessness: California's Education System for K-12 Inadequately Identifies and Supports These Youth (Release Date: November 2019)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To ensure that LEAs effectively identify and serve youth experiencing homelessness, the Legislature should require LEAs to follow best practices to request all families or youth to complete and return the housing questionnaire. For example, an LEA could combine this questionnaire with the emergency contact forms, which the families or youth are strongly encouraged to complete and return each year.
Description of Legislative Action
AB 27 (Chapter 394, Statutes of 2021) requires an LEA, commencing no later than the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, to ensure that the housing questionnaire is based on best practices developed by Education.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: December 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: Legislation Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
As of November 7, 2020, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: November 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: No Action Taken
Description of Legislative Action
AB 1937 would require LEAs to ensure that each school within the LEA identifies all homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths enrolled at the school, create a housing questionnaire for purposes of identifying homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths, and annually provide the housing questionnaire to all parents or guardians of pupils and unaccompanied youths of the LEA. The bill also would require LEAs to collect the completed housing questionnaires and to annually report to the California Department of Education (Education) the number of homeless children and unaccompanied youths enrolled.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: May 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Legislation Introduced
Description of Legislative Action
As of January 2020, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2020