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                                  SENATE HUMAN
                               SERVICES COMMITTEE
                            Senator Carol Liu, Chair


          BILL NO:       AB 2474                                      
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          AUTHOR:        Beall                                        
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          VERSION:       April 8, 2010
          HEARING DATE:  June 10, 2010                                
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          FISCAL:        To the floor                                 
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          CONSULTANT:                                                 
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          Hailey
                                        

                                     SUBJECT
                                         
               Community care facilities: foster family agencies

                                     SUMMARY 

          Extends for one year a provision that foster family  
          agencies have one social work supervisory for every eight  
          social workers - as opposed to one for every six, as  
          prescribed by state regulation.

                                     ABSTRACT  

           Current law
           1)  Establishes foster family agencies as a category of  
          community care licensed to provide foster care and support  
          services to children who are dependents of the juvenile  
          court.

          2)  Requires foster family agencies to employ one full-time  
          social work supervisor for every eight social workers or  
          fraction thereof in the agency.

          3)  Provides that this requirement for social work  
          supervisors shall not be implemented on or after January 1,  
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          2011, without the enactment of subsequent statutory  
          authorization.

           This bill
           1)  Extends until January 1, 2012, the requirement that  
          foster family agencies employ one full-time social work  
          supervisor for every eight social workers or fraction  
          thereof in the agency.


                                  FISCAL IMPACT  

          None, according to the Assembly Appropriations Committee

                            BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION  

          State regulation requires foster family agencies that  
          provide treatment to have a social work supervisor for  
          every six social workers.  In recognition of budget  
          shortfalls that have resulted in the Legislature either  
          freezing or cutting the rates paid to foster family  
          agencies, the Legislature passed SB 597 (Liu) in 2009.   
          That bill allowed foster family agencies that provide  
          treatment to have one social work supervisory for every  
          eight social workers.  This provision of SB 597 expires on  
          January 1, 2011.  This bill, AB 2474, extends the provision  
          for one year - until January 1, 2012.

           Assembly votes
           Human Services Committee  6-0
          Floor               74-0


                                    POSITIONS  

          Support:       California Alliance of Child and Family  
          Services (sponsor)
                         Aspiranet
                         County Welfare Directors Association

          Oppose:   None received








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