Senate Enrolled Act 305 - Summary

• Changes school placement notification deadline from June 30 to September 1 for students in foster care, and adds definition of "foster care" to education code sections.

• Establishes new definition of "victim of human or sexual trafficking" encompassing forced labor, involuntary servitude, prostitution, child exploitation, unauthorized marriage, and trafficking for sexual purposes.

• Creates new category of children in need of services for trafficking victims who need care, treatment, or rehabilitation, with presumption of need regardless of whether child consented to conduct.

• Expands criteria for children in need of services to include those living with adults convicted of or charged with human trafficking offenses, with rebuttable presumption that such children need court intervention.

• Repeals provisions establishing foster care review boards in juvenile courts for child in need of services and delinquent child proceedings; removes National Center for Missing and Exploited Children from child protective record access restrictions; renumbers related record access provisions.

• Modifies adoption expense provisions to clarify court approval authority and payment limitations for birth mother support costs ranging from $1,000 to $3,000, with exceptions for documented medical hardship up to additional amounts.