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CA AB896
Bill
Status
10/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Sade Elhawary
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AI Summary
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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