BILL NUMBER: AB 2236	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Stone

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 11404.1 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to foster care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2236, as introduced, Stone. Aid to Families with Dependent
Children-Foster Care.
   Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent
Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide
payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in
foster care. Existing law requires a child to receive certain
periodic reviews and permanency hearings, as specified, in order to
be eligible for AFDC-FC.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
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 11404.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   11404.1.  In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC,  the
  a  child shall receive a periodic review no less
frequently than once every six months and a permanency hearing within
12 months after the date the child entered foster care, pursuant to
Section 361.49. The child shall also receive permanency planning
hearings periodically, but no less frequently than once each 12
months thereafter, as required by subdivision (d) of Section 366.3
 ,  throughout the period of foster care placement. Periodic
reviews and permanency planning hearings shall not be required for a
child who is residing with a nonrelated legal guardian.