AB 1477 Summary

• Establishes superior court jurisdiction to make judicial findings supporting special immigrant juvenile status petitions under federal law, with confidential proceedings and record sealing provisions.

• Authorizes court-provided interpreters in civil proceedings for children seeking special immigrant juvenile status findings.

• Modifies receivership and temporary manager provisions for community care and residential care facilities, changing reimbursement procedures from liens to monetary judgments with judgment creditor priority.

• Creates the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Option Program effective January 1, 2015, allowing counties to pay relative caregivers caring for ineligible children at rates equal to AFDC-FC foster care providers.

• Requires contracting with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal representation to unaccompanied undocumented minors transferred to federal Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.