BILL NUMBER: SB 654	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 5, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 10609.45 to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to human services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 654, as amended, Leno. Independent Living Program.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to
develop statewide standards for the Independent Living Program for
emancipated foster youth established and funded pursuant to federal
law, to assist these individuals in making the transition to
self-sufficiency. Under existing law, a child in receipt of Kinship
Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) Program benefits is also
entitled to request and receive these independent living services.
   This bill  , in addition,  would require services
available under the Independent Living Program to be provided to
former dependent children of the juvenile court meeting prescribed
requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10609.45 is added to the Welfare and
Institutions Code, to read:
   10609.45.   Notwithstanding   (a)  
  Subject to subdivision (b), and notwit  
hstanding  any other provision of law, services available under
the Independent Living Program, established pursuant to the federal
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Public Law
99-272), shall be provided to an otherwise eligible former dependent
child of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 placed with a
nonrelated legal guardian, who is receiving permanent placement
services pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 16508. In a county
operating under a demonstration project pursuant to Section 18260,
services available under the Independent Living Program shall be
provided to an otherwise eligible former dependent child of the
juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 placed with a nonrelated legal
guardian, regardless of whether the child is receiving permanent
placement services. 
   (b) Services provided pursuant to subdivision (a) shall only be
provided to an otherwise eligible former dependent child of the
juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 placed with a nonrelated legal
guardian, whose guardianship was ordered on or after the child's
eighth birthday.