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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 44
Author: Liu (D)
Amended: 6/9/11
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR : 36-0, 5/12/11
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Cannella,
Corbett, Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Dutton, Emmerson,
Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Harman, Hernandez, Huff,
Kehoe, La Malfa, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod,
Padilla, Price, Rubio, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg,
Strickland, Vargas, Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Lieu, Pavley, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 6/15/11 (Consent) - See last page
for vote
SUBJECT : Foster Care Month 2011
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates the month of May 2011
as Foster Care Month in California.
Assembly Amendments delete a reference to AB 12 (Beall and
Bass), Chapter 559, Statutes of 2010, and make technical
corrections.
ANALYSIS : Resolution findings:
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1. All children need and deserve to feel love, a sense of
belonging, and the continuity of family and loved ones
to support and guide them in their growth and
development.
2. This need is especially urgent for California's 60,000
children in foster care, who have experienced the trauma
of neglect, abuse, and separation from family and loved
ones.
3. Thanks to the focus and commitment of Californians
working in public and private organizations in child
welfare, probation, mental health, public health,
education, and the courts, and the extraordinary
commitment of those who open their homes and work with
jurisdictions to meet the needs of foster youth for
safety, permanency, and well-being, more of California's
youth are able to live and grow up with the support of
permanent, caring families.
4. In recent years, California has made great strides in
attaining permanency for thousands of children and youth
in foster care.
5. Throughout the state, children and youth are benefiting
from a focus by child welfare jurisdictions on creating
permanent family connections from the moment a child
enters child welfare supervised care.
6. During 2009-2010, almost 60 percent (about 19,000) of
the children leaving foster care were returned to their
families.
7. For those children and youth who could not safely return
to their own families, we celebrate that over 6,500 were
adopted during that period and almost 3,000 attained
permanence through guardianship with relatives or other
adults.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 77-0, 6/15/11 (Consent)
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall,
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Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gordon, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Roger Hern�ndez, Hill,
Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara,
Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller,
Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Olsen,
Pan, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Portantino, Silva, Skinner,
Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, Valadao, Wagner,
Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gorell, Halderman, Norby
CTW:kc 6/16/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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