Bill Text: CA AB1887 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 13, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes |
January 22, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
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:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 22 of Chapter 50 of the Statutes of 2023 is amended to read:SEC. 22.
For the 2024–25 award year only, if the federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is not available on or before October 1, 2023, every financial aid program administered by the Student Aid Commission with an application deadline of March 2, 2024, shall have the application deadline extended toSEC. 2.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:(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.