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ASSEMBLY BILL 2807 (STEINBERG – 2004)
CHAPTER 810, STATUTES OF 2004, AB 2807
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Assembly Bill 2807, as enacted in 2004, amended and added various sections to the Welfare and Institutions Code relating to dependent children in foster care. (See Exhibit #1g) Assembly Member Darrell Steinberg introduced this legislation on February 20, 2004 at the request of the County Welfare Directors Association of California. (See Exhibits #1a; #5; #6, document AP2-3; and #9, document SP-10)
Assembly Bill 2807 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Human Services, the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Judiciary where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibits #3, #5, and #8) Five amendments were made to Assembly Bill 2807. (See Exhibits #1b though #1f and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill on September 27, 2004, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on that same date as Chapter 810 of the Statutes of 2004. (See Exhibit #1g)
A digest of Assembly Bill 2807 as last amended was provided in the Concurrence in Senate Amendments Analysis prepared by the Assembly Office of Research:
SUMMARY : Makes clarifying changes regarding the status of a dependent child in foster care. Specifically, this bill :
1)Limits the requirements as to court orders regarding a child's relationships with individuals that are important to the child consistent with the child's best interests to apply when a child is 10 years of age or older, who has been in an out-of-home placement in a group home for six months or longer (from the date the child entered foster care).
2)Makes other changes conforming the information monitored by judges in dependency status reports and hearings to the permanency planning requirements of social workers.
3)Requires the state to reinvest any incentive payments received through the implementation of the federal Adoption Promotion Act of 2003 for placement of older children into the child welfare system, as specified.
4)Restores the mandate of an order of parental visitation or a finding of detriment to both guardianship and long-term foster care cases.
The Senate amendments require the state to reinvest any federal incentive payments for placement of older children, as described above, add chaptering out language, and make further minor clarifying and conforming changes to the bill.
(See Exhibit #12b, page 1)