BILL NUMBER: AB 159	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall

                        JANUARY 19, 2011

   An act to amend Section 1506.3 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to community care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 159, as introduced, Beall. Community care facilities: foster
family agencies.
   The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder
of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services
to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified
family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a
licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing
county. The act requires, until January 1, 2012, a foster family
agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to
employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social
workers or fraction thereof in the agency.
   This bill would extend the operation of that employment
requirement until January 1, 2013.
   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 1506.3 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1506.3.  (a) A foster family agency that provides treatment of
children in foster families shall employ one full-time social work
supervisor for every eight social workers or fraction thereof in the
agency.
   (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
 2012   2013  , and as of that date is
repealed.