CA AB 1080
in committeeFoster care payments.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 1080 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 1080 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-08-13): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 1080 about?
Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents. Existing law, the federal Social Security Act, provides for benefits for eligible beneficiaries, including survivorship and disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for, among others, blind and disabled children. Existing law requires every youth who is in foster care to be screened by the county for potential eligibility for SSI and requires that screening to occur when the foster youth is at least 16 years of age and not older than 17 years of age. Existing law requires the county placing agency, for foster youth whose applications for federal Social Security Administration benefits have been denied, to file, or cause to be filed, a request for reconsideration with the federal Social Security Administration and, if the request for reconsideration is denied, to file an appeal, as specified. This bill would also require the county placing agency to take those actions for a foster youth for whom eligibility for federal Social Security Administration benefits has been terminated. Existing law requires a placing agency to act in accordance with specified guidelines and pursuant to certain requirements when acting as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a child or youth receiving federal Social Security Administration survivors' benefits, including, among other requirements, monitoring any applicable federal asset, resource, or income limits for the child's benefits and ensure that the child's best interests are served by conserving the benefits in a way that avoids termination of those benefits as a result of exceeding the federal asset, resource, or income limits, including establishing and maintaining a dedicated account on behalf of the child and preserves eligibility for other benefits to which the child may be entitled. This bill would generally expand the application of the placing agency guidelines and requirements described above to all circumstances in which the placing agency acts as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a foster youth who receives any type of benefit from the federal Social Security Administration, as specified. Existing law requires a county, when serving as representative payee for a child or nonminor dependent receiving federal Social Security Administration benefits, to use those benefits for, among other purposes, purposes determined by the county to be in the child's or nonminor's best interests. This bill would require the county to make that determination with input from the child's or nonminor dependent's child and family team. Existing law requires the county placing agency, for nonminor dependents who have been approved for SSI benefits, but who are receiving federally funded AFDC-FC benefits in an amount that exceeds the SSI payment, causing the SSI payment to be placed in suspense, to forego the federally funded AFDC-FC benefits during at least one month of every 12-month period, in order to permit the nonminor dependent to receive an SSI benefit during a single month in every 12-month benefit. This bill would expand that requirement to apply to all youth. This bill would also make various technical and conforming changes. By increasing county duties with respect to foster youth, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Who sponsors CA AB 1080?
Bryan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1080.
Description
Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents. Existing law, the federal Social Security Act, provides for benefits for eligible beneficiaries, including survivorship and disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for, among others, blind and disabled children. Existing law requires every youth who is in foster care to be screened by the county for potential eligibility for SSI and requires that screening to occur when the foster youth is at least 16 years of age and not older than 17 years of age. Existing law requires the county placing agency, for foster youth whose applications for federal Social Security Administration benefits have been denied, to file, or cause to be filed, a request for reconsideration with the federal Social Security Administration and, if the request for reconsideration is denied, to file an appeal, as specified. This bill would also require the county placing agency to take those actions for a foster youth for whom eligibility for federal Social Security Administration benefits has been terminated. Existing law requires a placing agency to act in accordance with specified guidelines and pursuant to certain requirements when acting as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a child or youth receiving federal Social Security Administration survivors' benefits, including, among other requirements, monitoring any applicable federal asset, resource, or income limits for the child's benefits and ensure that the child's best interests are served by conserving the benefits in a way that avoids termination of those benefits as a result of exceeding the federal asset, resource, or income limits, including establishing and maintaining a dedicated account on behalf of the child and preserves eligibility for other benefits to which the child may be entitled. This bill would generally expand the application of the placing agency guidelines and requirements described above to all circumstances in which the placing agency acts as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a foster youth who receives any type of benefit from the federal Social Security Administration, as specified. Existing law requires a county, when serving as representative payee for a child or nonminor dependent receiving federal Social Security Administration benefits, to use those benefits for, among other purposes, purposes determined by the county to be in the child's or nonminor's best interests. This bill would require the county to make that determination with input from the child's or nonminor dependent's child and family team. Existing law requires the county placing agency, for nonminor dependents who have been approved for SSI benefits, but who are receiving federally funded AFDC-FC benefits in an amount that exceeds the SSI payment, causing the SSI payment to be placed in suspense, to forego the federally funded AFDC-FC benefits during at least one month of every 12-month period, in order to permit the nonminor dependent to receive an SSI benefit during a single month in every 12-month benefit. This bill would expand that requirement to apply to all youth. This bill would also make various technical and conforming changes. By increasing county duties with respect to foster youth, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-22
- Latest action
- 2026-08-13 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Bryanauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-13
In committee: Held under submission.
2026-06-15
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-06-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
referral-committee
2026-01-29
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-01-29
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3875.)
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2026-01-26
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-01-22
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-01-22
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 22).
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2026-01-22
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3806.)
2026-01-22
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-23
Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
referral-committee
2025-04-22
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-08
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-10
Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
referral-committee
2025-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Lee: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Calderon: yes
Do pass as amended.
2026-01-22 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Wicks: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Krell: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hoover: other
- Tangipa: other
- Ta: other
- Dixon: other
AB 1080 Bryan Assembly Third Reading
2026-01-29 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Chen: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bains: yes
- Haney: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Flora: yes
- Fong: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Soria: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Krell: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Lee: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Arambula: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Ransom: other
- Gipson: other
- Valencia: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-01 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Laird: yes
- Becker: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
Placed on suspense file
2026-06-15 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Seyarto: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
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