California Health and Safety Code 150925 – (a) The Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness …
(a) The Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex (TGI) Wellness Reentry Fund is established in the State Treasury.
(b) The State Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Equity shall administer the TGI Wellness Reentry Fund for purposes of funding grants to create programs, or funding existing programs, focused on reentry programming specifically to support TGI people who have experienced carceral systems.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 150925
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(c) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the TGI Wellness Reentry Fund may be used to fund grants to existing and new TGI-specific reentry programs run by TGI-serving organizations. Reentry programs include, but are not limited to, emergency, transitional, or permanent housing, employment linkage and support, direct employment opportunities, workforce development and career development training, entrepreneurship opportunities, mental and general health care, identity document updating services, legal assistance, computer training, services navigation, case management, financial assistance and literacy, and other wraparound and comprehensive services.
(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Transgender” has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (f) of Section 150900.
(2) “Gender Variant” has the same meaning as “gender nonconforming” as defined in paragraph (4) of subdivision (f) of Section 150900.
(3) “Intersex” has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (5) of subdivision (f) of Section 150900.
(4) “TGI-serving organization” has the same meaning as defined in Section 150900.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 845, Sec. 2. (AB 1487) Effective January 1, 2024.)