Bill Text: CA AB2445 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2445 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Foster youth: social security insurance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2445 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2445-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2445	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 13753 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to foster youth.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2445, as introduced, Dababneh. Foster youth: social security
insurance.
   Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including
foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the
custody and care of their parents. Existing law, the federal Social
Security Act, provides for benefits for eligible beneficiaries,
including survivorship and disability benefits and supplemental
security income (SSI) benefits for, among others, blind and disabled
children. Existing law also provides for state supplemental payments
(SSP) to supplement SSI benefits. Existing law requires the county to
provide specified information relating to SSI payments to a foster
youth receiving those benefits when he or she is approaching his or
her 18th birthday.
   This bill would instead require the county to provide that
information to the youth when he or she is approaching his or her
17th birthday. By increasing duties on counties, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
    The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13753 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   13753.  When a foster youth who is receiving SSI payments is
approaching his or her  18th   17th 
birthday, the county shall do all of the following:
   (a) Provide information to the youth regarding the federal
requirement that the youth establish continuing disability as an
adult, if necessary, in order for SSI benefits to continue beyond his
or her 18th birthday.
   (b) Provide information to the youth regarding the process for
becoming his or her own payee, or designating an appropriate
representative payee if benefits continue beyond his or her 18th
birthday, and regarding any SSI benefits that have accumulated on his
or her behalf.
   (c) Assist the youth, as appropriate, in fulfilling the
requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b).
  SEC. 2.  To the extent that this act has an overall effect of
increasing the costs already borne by a local agency for programs or
levels of service mandated by the 2011 Realignment Legislation within
the meaning of Section 36 of Article XIII of the California
Constitution, it shall apply to local agencies only to the extent
that the state provides annual funding for the cost increase. Any new
program or higher level of service provided by a local agency
pursuant to this act above the level for which funding has been
provided shall not require a subvention of funds by the state nor
otherwise be subject to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.