(a) After setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, the department shall allocate all social services funds derived from the federal Refugee Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-212), as amended, that are required to be used for employment-related and English language training to each eligible county, in the same proportion that refugees on aid in each eligible county bears to the total refugees on aid in all eligible counties. The department shall assign differential weights for refugees based on the length of time that they have resided in the United States, as follows:
(1) For refugees who have resided in this country one year or less, the department shall use a weight of 1.50 for the purposes of calculating the allocation in this subdivision.
(2) For refugees who have resided in this country two years or less, but more than one year, the department shall use a weight of 1.25 for the purposes of calculating the allocation in this subdivision.
(3) For refugees who have resided in this country five years or less, but more than two years, the department shall use a weight of 1.00 for the purposes of calculating the allocation in this subdivision.
(b) After setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, the department shall allocate all federal targeted assistance received by the department to the counties designated by the federal government as eligible in the same way funds are allocated by the federal government in the final targeted assistance formula allocations to states.
(c) For the purposes of this section, “eligible county” means a county or city and county designated as impacted using a formula to be developed by the department based upon the refugee arrivals in the county during the preceding 60-month period for which the department has data.
(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 492, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2006.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018