California 2009-2010 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 2129 — Foster care: residentially based services.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 594, Statutes of 2010.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law provides for child welfare services, which are public social services directed toward, among other purposes, protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, including those in foster care placement. Existing law provides for the placement of children in foster care in various settings, including group homes, by foster placement agencies, under the oversight of the State Department of Social Services. Existing law provides for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which, pursuant to a combination of federal, state, and county funds, aid on behalf of eligible children is paid to foster care providers. Existing law requires the department to convene a workgroup of designated public and private stakeholders that will develop a plan for transforming the current system of group care for foster children or youth, and for children with serious emotional disorders into a system of residentially based services, as defined. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2011, to provide a copy of the plan developed by the workgroup to the Legislature. This bill would extend the deadline for providing a copy of the plan developed by the workgroup to the Legislature to July 1, 2014. Existing law authorizes the Child Welfare Services Program Improvement Fund to provide a comprehensive system of support to promote positive outcomes for children and families, by expending funds on various programs, upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would allow the State Department of Social Services to fund various child welfare-related activities by means of grants from the fund, rather than by contract. This bill would also allow certain grants to be renewed, as specified. Existing law requires the department to encourage counties and private nonprofit agencies to develop voluntary agreements to test alternative program design and funding models to achieve specified objectives, and authorizes voluntary agreements between counties and nonprofit agencies to transfer all or part of an existing group home program into a residentially based services program, if specified conditions are met. Under existing law, these agreements are valid for a period not to exceed 5 years from January 1, 2008. Existing law authorizes the department to waive otherwise applicable regulatory provisions and approve alternative funding models, in order to facilitate implementation of these agreements, and specifies the required characteristics of these alternative funding models. Under existing law, a waiver granted by the director under these circumstances, and the related alternative funding model, is prohibited from resulting in an increase in costs to the General Fund for AFDC-FC payments, measured on an annual basis. This bill would revise requirements relating to the waivers and alternative funding models, to authorize higher AFDC-FC payments to children and youth enrolled in a residentially based services program, that are offset by cost efficiencies. This bill would require the department to conduct reviews of the county residentially based services program, no sooner than 18 months after the first child's enrollment into the program, to determine the effectiveness of the program, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to terminate a county's participation in residentially based services reform if it determines that the county is not meeting specified objectives. This bill would require agreements entered into pursuant to the residentially based services reform provisions to terminate on or before January 1, 2015.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 594, Statutes of 2010.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6394.)

  5. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.

  7. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 7. Page 4595.)

  8. Read second time. To third reading.

  9. Received August 13 pursuant to Joint Rule 61(b)(14)

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (August 12).

  11. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR suspense file.

  13. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 22).

  14. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

  15. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  16. Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

  17. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  18. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4819.)

  19. Read second time. To Consent Calendar.

  20. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 14).

  21. From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 23).

  22. Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

  23. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  24. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Bass · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Bass

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

AB 2129 BASS Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 88 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 82003
Democratic 3000
Republican 3000
Total 88003
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Hall — Yea
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Coto — Yea
Bill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Blakeslee — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Audra — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Eng — Yea
Evans — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Huber — Yea
Jeffries — Not Voting
Knight — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Nava — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Norby — Not Voting
Ruskin — Yea
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Tran — Yea
Adams — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Block — Yea
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huffman — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Ma — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Villines — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Davis — Not Voting
DeVore — Yea
Furutani — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Assembly 3rd Reading AB2129 Bass By Liu

Passed 27 Yea · 7 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 24705
Democratic 2000
Republican 1000
Total 27705
% of votes cast 69%18%0%13%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Florez — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Harman — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Liu — Yea
McLeod — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Negrete — Yea
Correa — Yea
Ducheny — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Price — Yea
Romero — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Cedillo — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
Runner — Nay
Cogdill — Nay
Hollingsworth — Nay
Huff — Nay
Corbett — Not Voting
Dutton — Nay
Wiggins — Not Voting
Wright — Yea
Aanestad — Nay
Alquist — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Leno — Yea
Oropeza — Not Voting
Simitian — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Emmerson — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Denham — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 4 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7400
Total 7400
% of votes cast 64%36%0%0%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Wyland — Nay
Corbett — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Ashburn — Nay
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
Price — Yea
Walters — Nay
Emmerson — Nay

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Placed on Appropriations Suspense file.

Passed 10 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 10001
Total 10001
% of votes cast 91%0%0%9%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Yee — Yea
Ashburn — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Alquist — Yea
Kehoe — Yea
Leno — Yea
Price — Yea
Walters — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Emmerson — Yea

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AB 2129 BASS Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session

Passed 86 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 81004
Democratic 2001
Republican 3000
Total 86005
% of votes cast 95%0%0%5%
How each member voted (91)
Member Party Vote
Carter — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cook — Yea
Coto — Yea
Bill — Yea
Tom — Yea
Evans — Yea
Feuer — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Charles — Yea
Furutani — Yea
De — Yea
La — Yea
Torre — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Fletcher — Yea
Fong — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bass — Yea
Beall — Yea
Davis — Yea
DeVore — Yea
Bonnie — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
V. — Yea
Manuel — Yea
Perez — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Salas — Yea
Saldana — Yea
Audra — Yea
John — Yea
A. — Yea
Perez — Yea
Garrick — Yea
Gilmore — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hayashi — Yea
Blumenfield — Not Voting
Hernandez — Yea
Huber — Not Voting
Jeffries — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Miller — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nava — Yea
Norby — Not Voting
Silva — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Smyth — Yea
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torres — Yea
Tran — Yea
Villines — Yea
Adams — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Blakeslee — Yea
Block — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brownley — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huffman — Not Voting
Knight — Yea
Ma — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Ruskin — Yea
Swanson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Eng — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Fuentes — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Not Voting
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Niello, Roger W. Republican Yea
Strickland, Tony Republican Yea

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Do pass, to Consent Calendar.

Passed 17 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 16002
Democratic 1000
Total 17002
% of votes cast 89%0%0%11%
How each member voted (19)
Member Party Vote
Hall — Yea
Conway — Yea
Charles — Yea
De — Yea
Leon — Yea
Coto — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Norby — Not Voting
Solorio — Yea
Torlakson — Yea
Torrico — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Miller — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Davis — Not Voting
Fuentes — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 2129 do?
Existing law provides for child welfare services, which are public social services directed toward, among other purposes, protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, including those in foster care placement. Existing law provides for the placement of children in foster care in various settings, including group homes, by foster placement agencies, under the oversight of the State Department of Social Services. Existing law provides for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which, pursuant to a combination of federal, state, and county funds, aid on behalf of eligible children is paid to foster care providers. Existing law requires the department to convene a workgroup of designated public and private stakeholders that will develop a plan for transforming the current system of group care for foster children or youth, and for children with serious emotional disorders into a system of residentially based services, as defined. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2011, to provide a copy of the plan developed by the workgroup to the Legislature. This bill would extend the deadline for providing a copy of the plan developed by the workgroup to the Legislature to July 1, 2014. Existing law authorizes the Child Welfare Services Program Improvement Fund to provide a comprehensive system of support to promote positive outcomes for children and families, by expending funds on various programs, upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would allow the State Department of Social Services to fund various child welfare-related activities by means of grants from the fund, rather than by contract. This bill would also allow certain grants to be renewed, as specified. Existing law requires the department to encourage counties and private nonprofit agencies to develop voluntary agreements to test alternative program design and funding models to achieve specified objectives, and authorizes voluntary agreements between counties and nonprofit agencies to transfer all or part of an existing group home program into a residentially based services program, if specified conditions are met. Under existing law, these agreements are valid for a period not to exceed 5 years from January 1, 2008. Existing law authorizes the department to waive otherwise applicable regulatory provisions and approve alternative funding models, in order to facilitate implementation of these agreements, and specifies the required characteristics of these alternative funding models. Under existing law, a waiver granted by the director under these circumstances, and the related alternative funding model, is prohibited from resulting in an increase in costs to the General Fund for AFDC-FC payments, measured on an annual basis. This bill would revise requirements relating to the waivers and alternative funding models, to authorize higher AFDC-FC payments to children and youth enrolled in a residentially based services program, that are offset by cost efficiencies. This bill would require the department to conduct reviews of the county residentially based services program, no sooner than 18 months after the first child's enrollment into the program, to determine the effectiveness of the program, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to terminate a county's participation in residentially based services reform if it determines that the county is not meeting specified objectives. This bill would require agreements entered into pursuant to the residentially based services reform provisions to terminate on or before January 1, 2015.
Who sponsors AB 2129?
AB 2129 is sponsored by Bass.
What is the current status of AB 2129?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 18, 2010. Enacted.
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