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CA AB896

Bill

Status

Passed

10/10/2025

Primary Sponsor

Sade Elhawary

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires each county child welfare agency to adopt a placement transition planning policy for foster children transitioning between placement settings or from foster care to reunification, ensuring children and their current caregivers can provide input on transitions

  • Mandates the policy address educational, medical, mental health, cultural, dietary, and developmental needs, as well as maintaining permanent connections with relatives, friends, tribes, and continuity in healthcare and education

  • Requires the State Department of Social Services to issue best practices guidance for placement transition planning, with counties submitting their policies within one year of receiving the guidance and funding

  • Amends foster care law to require social workers to ensure appropriate placement transition planning consistent with county policy when a child's placement cannot be preserved after attempting a placement preservation strategy

  • Updates resource family approval training requirements to include instruction on placement transition planning to reduce trauma during transitions to reunification or other placement settings

Legislative Description

Foster care: placement transition planning.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 564, Statutes of 2025.

10/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations6/17/2025
Human Services5/28/2025
Rules5/15/2025
Appropriations4/30/2025
Human Services3/17/2025

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