BILL NUMBER: AB 2015	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member McCarty

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2016

   An act to amend Section 10104 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2015, as amended, McCarty.  2011   Public
social services: 2011  realignment report.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to
annually report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of
the Legislature and to post on its Internet Web site a summary of
outcome and expenditure data that allows for monitoring the changes
of the 2011 realignment of child welfare services, foster care,
adoptions, and adult protective services programs.  Existing law
also requires the department to contract with an appropriate and
qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of the
current child welfare services budgeting methodology and make
recommendations for revising the budgeting methodology, including,
among other things, appropriate caseload levels. 
   This bill would  make a technical, nonsubstantive change
to those provisions.   require the 2011 realignment
report to include reported expenditures for counties that are
participating and making claims under a specified federal waiver, how
those counties are maximizing the utilization of funds, and how
close counties are to funding the optimum caseload ratios as
recommended in the above evaluation. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10104 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   10104.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the
impacts of the 2011 realignment of child welfare services, foster
care, adoptions, and adult protective services programs are
identified and evaluated initially and over time. It is further the
intent of the Legislature to ensure that information regarding these
impacts is publicly available and accessible and can be utilized to
support the state's and counties' effectiveness in delivering these
critical services and supports.
   (b) The State Department of Social Services shall annually report
to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature,
and publicly post on the department's Internet Web site, a summary of
outcome and expenditure data that allows for monitoring of changes
over time.
   (c)  (1)    The report shall be submitted and
posted by April 15 of each year and shall contain expenditures for
each county for the programs described in clauses (i) to (vii),
inclusive, of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (16) of subdivision (f)
of Section 30025 of the Government Code.  To the extent that
the information is readily or publicly available, the 
    (2)     The  report shall also contain
the amount of funds each county receives from the Protective
Services Growth Special Account created pursuant to Section 30025 of
the Government Code, child welfare services social worker caseloads
per county, and the number of authorized positions in the local child
welfare services agency. 
   (3) The report shall also include reported expenditures for
counties that are participating and making claims under the federal
Title IV-E waiver, how those counties are maximizing the utilization
of funds, and how close counties are to funding the optimum caseload
ratios recommended by the evaluation conducted pursuant to Section
10609.5, also known as the California SB 2030 Study. 
   (d) The department shall consult with legislative staff and
stakeholders to develop a reporting format consistent with the
Legislature's desired level of outcome and expenditure reporting
detail.