Bill Text: CA AB1887 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Student financial aid: application deadlines: extension.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-25 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 5, Statutes of 2024. [AB1887 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1887-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1887

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes

January 22, 2024

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An act to add and repeal Section 16521.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1887, as introduced, Cervantes. Foster care: LGBTQ youth.

Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies and other specified entities, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families.

This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup to create a report with recommendations to prevent housing instability among LGBTQ youth in foster care. The bill would require the workgroup to submit that report on or before January 1, 2026, as specified. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2028.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 16521.4 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

16521.4.

 (a) (1) The department shall convene a workgroup to create a report with recommendations to prevent housing instability among LGBTQ youth in foster care.

(2) The workgroup established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall address whether strengthening case management and services for those transitioning from foster care would eliminate housing instability among LGBTQ youth.

(3) The report required pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted on or before January 1, 2026.

(b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2028.