BILL NUMBER: AB 2441	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Thurmond

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to foster care.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2441, as introduced, Thurmond. Foster care.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to
develop a plan for the ongoing oversight and coordination of health
care services for a child in a foster care placement in consultation
with pediatricians, other health care experts, and experts in, and
recipients of, child welfare services. Existing law requires the plan
to ensure a coordinated strategy to identify and respond to the
health care needs of foster children, consistent with federal law.
   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 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   16010.2.  The department, in consultation with pediatricians,
other health care experts, including public health nurses, and
experts  in   in, and recipients 
of   of,  child welfare services, including
parents, shall develop a plan for the ongoing oversight and
coordination of health care services for a child in a foster care
placement. The plan shall ensure a coordinated strategy to identify
and respond to the health care needs of foster children, including
mental health and dental needs, consistent with Section 205 of the
federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
of 2008 (Public Law 110-351).