BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
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103 (McCarty)
As Introduced August 26, 2015
Majority vote
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|Committee |Votes|Ayes |Noes |
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|Rules |11-0 |Gordon, Chang, Burke, | |
| | |Campos, Cooley, Dodd, | |
| | |Jones, Mayes, | |
| | |Rodriguez, Waldron, | |
| | |Wood | |
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SUMMARY: Designates November 2015 as Court Adoption and
Permanency Month and encourages the courts and their local
communities to join in activities to expedite permanency for
children. Specifically, this resolution makes the following
legislative findings:
1)Consistent with its commitment to support practices and
procedures that promote access to justice and improved case
outcomes for California's children and families, the Judicial
Council has recognized November as Court Adoption and
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Permanency Month every year since 1999.
2)Each year in California nearly half a million incidents of
child abuse and neglect are reported and about 23,400 children
enter child welfare-supervised foster care for the first time
each year; and nearly 62,000 California children live apart
from their families in child welfare-supervised out-of-home
care.
3)Thirty-eight percent of the children in foster care in
California have lived apart from their families for two or
more years. Twenty-four percent of the youth in care are
transitional-age youth between 16 and 20 years of age.
4)Of the more than 26,000 California children who left foster
care in 2014, approximately 57% were reunited with their
families, 22% were adopted, and 6% exited foster care without
reunifying or obtaining a permanent home by the time they
reached the age of majority.
5)Programs promoting permanency have been created by local
courts and communities in California that have resulted in a
reduction in the number of children waiting to live in safe,
stable, and permanent homes.
6)The Judicial Council remains committed to working with the
Governor, the Legislature, and local courts and communities to
ensure that every abused or neglected child finds a safe,
stable, and permanent home with a loving family as quickly as
possible.
FISCAL EFFECT: None
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Analysis Prepared by:
Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 FN:
0002199