BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 11, 2011
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 1147 (Yamada) - As Amended: April 4, 2011
Policy Committee: Human
ServicesVote:6 - 0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
Yes Reimbursable: Yes
SUMMARY
This bill requires that a foster youth's supplemental report to
the court specifically include age and developmentally
appropriate services that were provided to the youth if he or
she is a minor parent in order to ensure that the youth can
provide a safe home for his or her child/children.
FISCAL EFFECT
Data on parenting teens in foster care who are living with their
children is not readily available. Exit data suggests that 11%
of the 18 and 19-year-old foster youth that emancipated from
foster care in 2010 were parenting teens. Presumably fewer youth
between the ages of 15 and 17 are parents. Therefore, if 5% of
15-to-20-year-old foster youth are parents and living with their
children, it could cost up to $300,000 ($180,000 GF) per year
for the workload associated with social workers including the
required information in the semiannual supplemental report.
COMMENTS
1)Purpose . The purpose of this bill is to provide dependency
court judges with the information they need to ensure that
parenting foster youth are receiving the services they need
and are guaranteed under the Teen Parents in Foster Care Act
to prepare them to provide a safe home for their children once
they leave foster care.
2)The Teen Parents in Foster Care Act . The Teen Parents in
Foster Care Act passed in 2004 asserted the intent of the
Legislature to provide teen parents in foster care with the
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supports and services required to keep foster youth and their
children in safe, stable, and supportive environments whenever
possible. Subsequent to this bill, state law was changed to
better align state and federal funding incentives and provide
teen parent foster youth with greater placement options, such
as the whole family foster home placement-both for those teen
parents placed with a nondependent child, and for those who
are placed with a dependent child during the family
reunification process.
3)Related Legislation . SB 1178 (Kuehl, Statutes of 2004
established the Teen Parents in Foster Care Act.
SB 500 (Kuehl, Statutes of 2005 created the "whole family
foster home," placement which provides foster care for teen
parents and their dependent or nondependent children.
Analysis Prepared by : Julie Salley-Gray / APPR. / (916)
319-2081