CA SB 557
enactedChild abuse: family resource centers.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Did CA SB 557 pass?
Yes. CA SB 557 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-08-24): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 125, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA SB 557 about?
Existing law establishes the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services and requires the office to apply for federal funding for the administration of its functions. Existing law requires the office to use those funds to undertake specified activities, including, among other things, supporting coordination and sharing of best practices implemented by family resource centers with other agencies, when the best practices reflect strategies and outcomes that were achieved and supported by evidence-informed programs and data. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a child abuse multidisciplinary personnel team within that county to allow provider agencies to share confidential information in order for provider agencies to investigate reports of suspected child abuse or neglect, as specified, or for the purpose of child welfare agencies making a detention determination. Existing law specifies that the multidisciplinary personnel team may include a representative of a local child abuse prevention council or family-strengthening organization, including, but not limited to, a family resource center. Existing law defines "family resource center," for purposes of these provisions, to mean an entity providing family-centered and family-strengthening services that are embedded in communities, culturally sensitive, and include cross-system collaboration to assist in transforming families and communities through reciprocity and asset development based on impact-driven and evidence-informed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening children and families. This bill would instead define "family resource center" to mean a family-friendly entity serving as a hub for multigenerational, family-centered, and family-strengthening support services that are provided at no cost or low cost to participants, embedded in communities, culturally sensitive, reflective of, and responsive to, community needs and interests, build communities of peer support for families, and include cross-system collaboration to assist in transforming families and communities through reciprocity, development of social connections that reduce isolation and stress, and asset development based on impact-driven and evidence-informed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening children and families.
Who sponsors CA SB 557?
Hurtado is the primary sponsor of CA SB 557.
Description
Existing law establishes the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services and requires the office to apply for federal funding for the administration of its functions. Existing law requires the office to use those funds to undertake specified activities, including, among other things, supporting coordination and sharing of best practices implemented by family resource centers with other agencies, when the best practices reflect strategies and outcomes that were achieved and supported by evidence-informed programs and data. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a child abuse multidisciplinary personnel team within that county to allow provider agencies to share confidential information in order for provider agencies to investigate reports of suspected child abuse or neglect, as specified, or for the purpose of child welfare agencies making a detention determination. Existing law specifies that the multidisciplinary personnel team may include a representative of a local child abuse prevention council or family-strengthening organization, including, but not limited to, a family resource center. Existing law defines "family resource center," for purposes of these provisions, to mean an entity providing family-centered and family-strengthening services that are embedded in communities, culturally sensitive, and include cross-system collaboration to assist in transforming families and communities through reciprocity and asset development based on impact-driven and evidence-informed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening children and families. This bill would instead define "family resource center" to mean a family-friendly entity serving as a hub for multigenerational, family-centered, and family-strengthening support services that are provided at no cost or low cost to participants, embedded in communities, culturally sensitive, reflective of, and responsive to, community needs and interests, build communities of peer support for families, and include cross-system collaboration to assist in transforming families and communities through reciprocity, development of social connections that reduce isolation and stress, and asset development based on impact-driven and evidence-informed approaches with the goal of preventing child abuse and neglect and strengthening children and families.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-20
- Latest action
- 2026-08-24 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 125, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Hurtadoauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-24
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 125, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-08-24
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-08-11
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-06
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage
2026-08-06
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-06
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6085.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-07-02
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-06-17
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-05-04
Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
referral-committee
2026-01-29
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-01-29
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3323.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-01-26
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2026-01-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-01-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3269.) (January 22).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-01-21
Set for hearing January 22.
2026-01-20
January 20 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2026-01-14
Set for hearing January 20.
2026-01-13
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3204.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-01-07
Set for hearing January 12.
2026-01-05
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2026-01-05
Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
referral-committee
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-01-12 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Pérez: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Becker: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Arreguín: yes
Placed on suspense file
2026-01-20 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
Do pass
2026-01-22 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
Special Consent
2026-01-29 · pass · 39-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Grove: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Stern: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Becker: yes
- Limón: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Laird: yes
- Niello: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-16 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Alanis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Lee: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-07-01 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Solache: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: other
- Calderon: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Pellerin: other
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