BILL NUMBER: AB 2475	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 16500 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to child welfare services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2475, as introduced, Beall. Child welfare services.
   Existing law requires the state, through the State Department of
Social Services and county welfare departments, to establish and
support a public system of statewide child welfare services, with the
intent that all children are entitled to be safe and free from abuse
and neglect.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
provision.
   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 16500 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   16500.  The state, through the department and county welfare
departments, shall establish and support a public system of statewide
child welfare services to be developed as rapidly as possible and to
be available in each county of the state. All counties shall
establish and maintain specialized organizational entities within the
county welfare department  which   that 
shall have sole responsibility for  the operation of
  operating  the child welfare services program.
   The Legislature hereby declares its intent, in providing for this
statewide system of child welfare services, that all children are
entitled to be safe and free from abuse and neglect.