AB 120 Summary

• Adoption Facilitators Prohibition: Prohibits adoption facilitators from operating after January 1, 2024, requiring them to cease operations by December 31, 2023, and deeming any continuation as unlicensed adoption agency operation subject to civil penalties and law enforcement referral.

• Community Care Facility Administrator Training: Removes classroom instruction requirements for facility administrators, replacing them with "instruction conducive to learning" allowing interactive participation, and permits up to half of continuing education hours through self-paced courses rather than online-only courses.

• CalWORKs Assistance Enhancements: Extends 10% maximum aid payment increase indefinitely (previously set to expire September 30, 2024), increases payments by additional 3.6% effective October 1, 2023, and exempts all guaranteed income payments from being counted as income.

• Home Care Services Regulation: Removes requirement for home care organization licensees to submit proof of insurance and bonds at renewal, instead requiring biennial inspections to verify policy compliance, and authorizes General Fund appropriations for program administration.

• Child Welfare and Housing Support Expansions: Increases housing supplement for nonminor dependents in supervised independent living placements, extends adoption assistance programs, expands tribal participation in child welfare services, and modifies Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment eligibility definitions.