Bill Text: CA SB100 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extended foster care program working group.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB100 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB100-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 100

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Introduced by Senator Hurtado

December 28, 2020

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An act to add Section 11403.5 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 100, as introduced, Hurtado. Extended foster care program working group.

Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC), Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to nonminor dependents up to 21 years of age, if specified conditions are met.

This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to convene a working group to examine the extended foster care program make recommendations for improvements to the program within six months. The bill would require that the working group include representatives from specified state agencies and stakeholders. The bill would require the working group to evaluate on provide recommendations on the overall functioning of the extended foster care system, higher education opportunities and supports for nonminor dependents, job training and employment opportunities and supports for nonminor dependents, housing access, and transition support for nonminor dependents exiting care.

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 11403.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

11403.5.

 (a) The State Department of Social Services shall convene a working group to examine the extended foster care program and funding authorized by Section 303 and Section 11403, and shall make recommendations for improvements to the program no more than six months from the date of enactment of this section.

(b) The working group shall include representatives from the appropriate fiscal subcommittees and policy committees of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Judicial Council, the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the State Foster Care Ombudsperson, foster youth or former foster youth, child advocacy organizations, tribal representatives, and other groups and stakeholders that provide benefits, services, and advocacy to families and children in the child welfare and foster care systems.

(c) The working group should evaluate and provide recommendations on:

(1) The overall functioning of the extended foster care system.

(2) Higher education opportunities and supports for nonminor dependents.

(3) Job training and employment opportunities and supports for nonminor dependents.

(4) Housing access.

(5) Transition support for nonminor dependents exiting from care.