BILL NUMBER:  SB 1040
  VETOED	DATE: 09/27/2016




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 1040 without my signature.

This bill requires the Department of Social Services to convene a
work group to review challenges faced by families with children
adopted from the foster care system, children adopted with special
needs, or internationally adopted children.

The intent of this bill is to prevent the transfer of these children
from one home to another outside of the adoption process.  Rather
than establishing another work group, I believe that these issues
should be handled by the Department of Social Services in the normal
course of its work on adoptions with counties, adoption agencies and
interested stakeholders.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.