Bill Text: CA AB2462 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Vehicles: parking: child protective services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-28 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2462 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2462-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2462	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dababneh

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

    An act to amend Section 10609.7 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to social services.   An act
to add Section 22511.2 to the Vehicle Code, relating to vehicles.




	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2462, as amended, Dababneh.  Child welfare services:
caseload standards.   Vehicles: parking: child
protective services.  
    Existing law authorizes a disabled person or disabled veteran
displaying a special license plate or a distinguishing placard, as
issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles or foreign jurisdiction,
to park for unlimited periods in specified zones, including, but not
limited to, any parking zone that is restricted to the length of time
parking is permitted and to park in metered spaces without paying
parking meter fees.  
   This bill would authorize an employee of a state or county child
protective services agency to park, for unlimited periods, an agency
vehicle clearly marked "child protective services" in specified
zones, including any metered parking space and curbs that indicate
stopping only for the purpose of loading or unloading passengers or
freight, while conducting agency business.  
   Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to
convene a stakeholder group to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy
of current child welfare services budgeting methodology and to make
recommendations for revising the methodology, including appropriate
caseload levels, in order to adequately fund the system. Existing law
states the intent of the Legislature that this stakeholder group
include in its next report the core strategies needed to establish
minimum caseload standards.  
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    Section 22511.2 is added to the 
 Vehicle Code   , to read:  
   22511.2.  An employee of a state or county child protective
services agency may park an agency motor vehicle clearly marked
"child protective services" in any of the following zones for
unlimited periods while conducting agency business, including, but
not limited to, transporting, retrieving, or checking in on the
welfare of a child:
   (a) Any metered parking space without being required to pay the
parking meter fees.
   (b) Any parking zone that is restricted as to the length of time
parking is permitted as indicated by a sign erected pursuant to a
local ordinance.
   (c) Any restricted zone described in paragraph (2) of subdivision
(a) of Section 21458.
   (d) Any restricted zone described in paragraph (3) of subdivision
(a) of Section 21458.
    (e) Any restricted zone described in paragraph (5) of subdivision
(a) of Section 21458.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 10609.7 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code is amended to read:
   10609.7.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) The department has convened the Child Welfare Services
Stakeholders Group for the purpose of making recommendations to
redesign California's child welfare system to create and sustain a
flexible system, comprised of public and private partnerships, that
provides a comprehensive system of support for families and
communities to ensure the well-being of every child.
   (2) In the first year of the stakeholders group, there was
significant attention brought to the carrying capacity of direct
service professionals through the development of an implementation
plan of child welfare services workload study pursuant to Section
10609.5.
   (3) The stakeholders group has convened a series of working
groups, including the Human Resources Workgroup, whose tasks are to
develop core strategies and recommendations resulting in a high
capacity, competent, satisfied child welfare services workforce that
is able to perform the essential functions of the redesigned child
welfare system.
   (4) In the second year, the Human Resources Workgroup report found
that workload issues have not appreciably declined and that for the
child welfare services redesign to be successful, workforce
considerations need to be at the forefront of all redesign efforts.
   (5) The stakeholders group and its Human Resources Workgroup have
entered the third year of the redesign process for the state's child
welfare services.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Human Resources
Workgroup of the Child Welfare Services Stakeholders Group include in
its next planned report the core strategies needed to establish
minimum caseload standards under the redesigned child welfare
services system for all service areas.
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Human Resources
Workgroup also make recommendations for implementing the new caseload
standards, including a recommendation that would achieve at least 20
percent of the caseload reductions annually over a specified period
of time, as required under the newly recommended standards.