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Sponsor outlines one-year funding "flex" and mitigation review in homelessness amendments
Summary
The committee advanced HB 596, a package of homelessness amendments that would temporarily flex winter overflow resource centers year-round, create a working group to revisit the mitigation formula, and tweak code-blue/code-red rules; the first substitute and a house amendment passed unanimously.
A bill sponsor presented a package of homelessness amendments designed to extend winter-overflow capacity, shore up funding, and revisit the state’s mitigation formula.
The sponsor told the committee that "come April 30 this year, we run out of mitigation fund excuse me, of overflow funding," and said HB 596 includes a mechanism to fund that shortfall and to "flex" resource centers on a year-round basis for one year.
Why it matters: The bill aims to prevent people from being forced back onto streets when one-time winter-overflow funding ends and to give shelter cities more predictable support. The sponsor said the measure also establishes a working group to recommend longer-term changes to a…
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