BILL NUMBER: AB 2132	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Grove

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act relating to foster care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2132, as introduced, Grove. Foster care: provider performance
data.
   Existing law establishes the California Child and Family Service
Review System, which is used to review all county child welfare
systems on specified performance and outcome measures. Existing law
requires those reviews to cover child protective services, foster
care, adoption, family preservation, family support, and independent
living. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services
to conduct those reviews of each county and requires that county
child welfare systems that do not meet established compliance
thresholds receive technical assistance to assist with implementing
best practices to improve their performance and make progress toward
meeting established levels of compliance. Existing law requires a
county to be responsible for, and accountable to, the department for
child welfare program performance measures and to submit an update to
the department, no less than annually, on its progress in achieving
improvements from the county's baseline for the applicable measure.
Existing law requires the department to monitor, on an ongoing basis,
county performance on those measures and to conduct a comprehensive
review of county performance on those measures at least once every 5
years.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to incorporate the collection and reporting of individual
foster care provider performance data into the California Child and
Family Service Review System in order to better inform child
placement decisions and identify opportunities to improve the
performance of, and to provide additional training to, individual
foster care providers.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to incorporate the collection and reporting of individual
foster care provider performance data into the California Child and
Family Service Review System in order to better inform child
placement decisions and identify opportunities to improve the
performance of, and to provide additional training to, individual
foster care providers.