CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 657Introduced by Assembly Member JacksonFebruary 09, 2023 An act relating to foster care. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 657, as introduced, Jackson. Foster parents.Existing law requires State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law also requires counties to use state funding allocated to them for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and supporting foster parents, relative caregivers, and resource families to increase the capacity and use of home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to those caregivers.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 657Introduced by Assembly Member JacksonFebruary 09, 2023 An act relating to foster care. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 657, as introduced, Jackson. Foster parents.Existing law requires State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law also requires counties to use state funding allocated to them for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and supporting foster parents, relative caregivers, and resource families to increase the capacity and use of home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to those caregivers.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 657
Introduced by Assembly Member JacksonFebruary 09, 2023
Introduced by Assembly Member Jackson
February 09, 2023
An act relating to foster care.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 657, as introduced, Jackson. Foster parents.
Existing law requires State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law also requires counties to use state funding allocated to them for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and supporting foster parents, relative caregivers, and resource families to increase the capacity and use of home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to those caregivers.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
Existing law requires State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law also requires counties to use state funding allocated to them for the purpose of recruiting, retaining, and supporting foster parents, relative caregivers, and resource families to increase the capacity and use of home-based family care and the provision of services and supports to those caregivers.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide supports to foster parents and potential foster parents.
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