BILL NUMBER: AB 665	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torrico

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Section 16131.5 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to children.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 665, as introduced, Torrico. State adoption services:
investment.
   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.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services may
provide state adoption services in a county that has not established
a county adoption agency. Existing law requires the state to reinvest
incentive payments, received through the implementation of specified
provisions of federal law, for placement of older children into the
child welfare system, in order to provide adoption services for older
children.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these
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 16131.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   16131.5.  The state shall reinvest  any 
incentive payments received through the implementation of the federal
Adoption Promotion Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-145) for placement of
older children, as defined in that act, into the child welfare
system, in order to provide adoption services for older children.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to supplant funds
currently being spent on programs to provide adoption services.