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CA AB1120

Bill

Status

Engrossed

6/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sade Elhawary

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the State Department of Social Services to provide educational resources to foster parents and others regarding grooming and hygiene products appropriate for a foster child's culture and ethnicity

  • Amends existing foster care rights law to ensure children receive clothing, grooming, and hygiene products that respect their culture, ethnicity, and gender identity and expression

  • Makes a technical correction changing "age" to "age-appropriate" in the section requiring foster youth to be informed of their rights in an age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate manner

  • Does not require an appropriation and passes with a majority vote

  • Applies to all children placed in foster care, whether voluntarily or as wards/dependents of juvenile court, as well as nonminor dependents in foster care

Legislative Description

Foster care: rights of foster youth.

Last Action

In committee: Held under submission.

8/29/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/1/2025
Human Services6/18/2025
Rules6/4/2025
Appropriations4/9/2025
Human Services3/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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