California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: Enacted

SB 1460 — Child welfare.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2014.

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    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 25, 2014. Enacted.

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Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

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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

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to, authorize a county welfare department to undertake comprehensive recruitment programs to ensure an adequate number of foster homes are available. Existing law regulates adoption services by the department, county adoption agencies, licensed adoption agencies, and other adoption service providers, and requires the department to adopt regulations pertaining to those services. This bill would require that recruitment to include diligent efforts to recruit individuals who reflect the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of foster children and adoptive children, but would not affect the application of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. (2) Existing law requires a social worker to conduct, within 30 days of a child being removed from the custody of his or her parents or guardians, an investigation in order to identify and locate all grandparents, adult siblings, and other adult relatives of the child. This bill would authorize county child welfare and probation departments to request and receive from the California Parent Locator Service and Central Registry and the federal Parent Locator Service information to identify and locate those family members. (3) Existing law requires the local child welfare agency to make a diligent effort in all out-of-home placements of dependent children, including those with relatives, to place siblings together in the same placement, and requires the social worker to explain why the siblings are not placed together and what efforts he or she is making to place the siblings together or why making those efforts would be contrary to the safety and well-being of any of the siblings. This bill would also require a probation officer to provide that explanation. (4) Existing law authorizes the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with specified groups, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process relating to foster care and adoption placements. This bill would make nonsubstantive, conforming changes. (5) Existing law requires a foster home to be licensed by State Department of Social Services, and authorizes up to five counties, selected by the department, to approve a resource family, as defined, for foster care placement. This bill would exempt a resource family, as defined, from those licensure requirements, and would allow additional counties to volunteer to be selected by the department to also be authorized to approve a resource family. (6) Existing law specifies the entities, that may receive criminal history information from the Department of Justice. This bill would authorize a tribal child welfare agency to receive that information. (7) Existing law provides for the transfer of custody proceedings including proceedings involving an Indian child from a county juvenile court to the jurisdiction of the child's tribe. This bill would require a county juvenile court to transfer the entire child case file, as defined, to the tribe having jurisdiction, and would require both the county juvenile court and the tribe to document the finding of facts supporting jurisdiction over the child. (8) Existing law allows a court to remove a child from the home of one or both of his or her parents and to be placed under the supervision of a social worker who may place the child in the home of a noncustodial parent, relative, or approved nonrelative extended family. This bill would additionally allow for the child to be placed in an approved home of a resource family, as defined, and would make conforming changes relating to this provision. (9) The Federal Indian Child Welfare Act, authorizes a federally recognized tribe to approve a home for the purpose of foster or adoptive placement of an Indian child. This bill would conform state law to that provision and would specify the duties of a tribal child welfare agency, as defined, in conducting related background checks. (10) Existing law requires the department to report specified information regarding provision of health care to children in foster care. This bill would require a county child welfare agency to provide the department with information necessary for the department to meet those reporting responsibilities. (11) Existing law authorizes state departments to adopt regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services, until emergency regulations are filed with the Secretary of State, to implement specified changes proposed by this bill, through all-county letters or similar instructions from the Director of Social Services. (12) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 17506 of the Family Code proposed by SB 1066, to be operative only if SB 1066 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 361.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 977 and SB 1099, to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 2607, to be operative only if AB 2607 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 16002 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 1099, to be operative only if SB 1099 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. (13) By expanding the duties of local agencies, this bill would create 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2014.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4913.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6452.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read third time and amended. (Page 6340.)

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  10. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 6).

  11. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. Hearing postponed by committee.

  13. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  14. Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

  15. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  16. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3687.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  18. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3717.) (May 23).

  19. Set for hearing May 23.

  20. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  21. Set for hearing May 5.

  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3214.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  23. Set for hearing April 22.

  24. Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

  25. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.

  26. (Corrected May 28.)

  27. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Committee on Human Services · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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Sponsors (1)

  • Committee on Human Services

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB1460 Committee on HUMAN S. (Beall) Concurrence

Passed 34 Yea · 0 Nay · 6 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 33004
Democratic 1002
Total 34006
% of votes cast 85%0%0%15%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Block — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Huff — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Torres — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Wyland — Yea
De León — Not Voting
Cannella — Yea
Hancock — Not Voting
Knight — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Yee — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Not Voting

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SB 1460 HUMAN. S. Senate Third Reading By STONE

Passed 79 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 72000
Democratic 4000
Republican 3000
Total 79000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Holden — Yea
Levine — Yea
Linder — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Weber — Yea
Williams — Yea
Campos — Yea
Fox — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Allen — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Daly — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Ting — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Gray — Yea
Hall — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Fong — Yea
Chesbro — Yea
Logue — Yea
Medina — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Conway — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Donnelly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 17 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15000
Republican 1000
Democratic 1000
Total 17000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Holden — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Linder — Yea
Donnelly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Pan — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Weber — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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3rd Reading SB1460 Committee on HUMAN S.

Passed 37 Yea · 0 Nay · 3 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 35002
Democratic 2001
Total 37003
% of votes cast 93%0%0%8%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Block — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Knight — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Walters — Yea
Wright — Not Voting
Correa — Yea
Evans — Yea
Wyland — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
De León — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Corbett — Yea
Hill — Yea
Huff — Yea
Lara — Yea
Beall — Yea
Leno — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
Wolk — Yea
DeSaulnier — Yea
Yee — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Not Voting
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
De León — Yea
Walters — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 1460 do?
(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to, authorize a county welfare department to undertake comprehensive recruitment programs to ensure an adequate number of foster homes are available. Existing law regulates adoption services by the department, county adoption agencies, licensed adoption agencies, and other adoption service providers, and requires the department to adopt regulations pertaining to those services. This bill would require that recruitment to include diligent efforts to recruit individuals who reflect the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of foster children and adoptive children, but would not affect the application of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. (2) Existing law requires a social worker to conduct, within 30 days of a child being removed from the custody of his or her parents or guardians, an investigation in order to identify and locate all grandparents, adult siblings, and other adult relatives of the child. This bill would authorize county child welfare and probation departments to request and receive from the California Parent Locator Service and Central Registry and the federal Parent Locator Service information to identify and locate those family members. (3) Existing law requires the local child welfare agency to make a diligent effort in all out-of-home placements of dependent children, including those with relatives, to place siblings together in the same placement, and requires the social worker to explain why the siblings are not placed together and what efforts he or she is making to place the siblings together or why making those efforts would be contrary to the safety and well-being of any of the siblings. This bill would also require a probation officer to provide that explanation. (4) Existing law authorizes the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with specified groups, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process relating to foster care and adoption placements. This bill would make nonsubstantive, conforming changes. (5) Existing law requires a foster home to be licensed by State Department of Social Services, and authorizes up to five counties, selected by the department, to approve a resource family, as defined, for foster care placement. This bill would exempt a resource family, as defined, from those licensure requirements, and would allow additional counties to volunteer to be selected by the department to also be authorized to approve a resource family. (6) Existing law specifies the entities, that may receive criminal history information from the Department of Justice. This bill would authorize a tribal child welfare agency to receive that information. (7) Existing law provides for the transfer of custody proceedings including proceedings involving an Indian child from a county juvenile court to the jurisdiction of the child's tribe. This bill would require a county juvenile court to transfer the entire child case file, as defined, to the tribe having jurisdiction, and would require both the county juvenile court and the tribe to document the finding of facts supporting jurisdiction over the child. (8) Existing law allows a court to remove a child from the home of one or both of his or her parents and to be placed under the supervision of a social worker who may place the child in the home of a noncustodial parent, relative, or approved nonrelative extended family. This bill would additionally allow for the child to be placed in an approved home of a resource family, as defined, and would make conforming changes relating to this provision. (9) The Federal Indian Child Welfare Act, authorizes a federally recognized tribe to approve a home for the purpose of foster or adoptive placement of an Indian child. This bill would conform state law to that provision and would specify the duties of a tribal child welfare agency, as defined, in conducting related background checks. (10) Existing law requires the department to report specified information regarding provision of health care to children in foster care. This bill would require a county child welfare agency to provide the department with information necessary for the department to meet those reporting responsibilities. (11) Existing law authorizes state departments to adopt regulations in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services, until emergency regulations are filed with the Secretary of State, to implement specified changes proposed by this bill, through all-county letters or similar instructions from the Director of Social Services. (12) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 17506 of the Family Code proposed by SB 1066, to be operative only if SB 1066 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 361.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 977 and SB 1099, to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 2607, to be operative only if AB 2607 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 16002 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 1099, to be operative only if SB 1099 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. (13) By expanding the duties of local agencies, this bill would create 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Who sponsors SB 1460?
SB 1460 is sponsored by Committee on Human Services.
What is the current status of SB 1460?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 25, 2014. Enacted.
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