Undocumented immigrants: legal services.

Existing law establishes the Naturalization Services Program, administered within the Department of Community Services and Development, to fund community-based organizations in assisting legal permanent residents in obtaining citizenship. This bill subject to the availability of funding in the annual Budget Act, would require a state agency or department, to be determined by the Governor, to contract with qualified nonprofit or community-based organizations, as defined, to provide legal services to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans applicants in this state. This bill would become operative upon a final judicial determination that the federal Expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the federal Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program announced by the President of the United States on November 20, 2014, may be lawfully implemented.