CA SB1425

Requires courts to order a hearing on proposed modifications to reunification services, custody, or visitation orders for children when reunification services were not initially ordered, if the court finds the change serves the child's best interests.

Establishes that courts may only modify an order finding reunification services unnecessary (under specific circumstances involving sexual abuse or severe physical harm) if clear and convincing evidence shows the proposed change is in the child's best interests.

Applies the same clear and convincing evidence standard to petitions seeking to modify custody or visitation orders for dependent children for whom reunification services were not ordered.

Effective immediately as an urgency statute to ensure parents in dependency cases involving sexual abuse or severe physical harm receive reunification services only in limited circumstances during modification proceedings.