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CaliforniaAB 3492025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Foster care supplement.

Sponsored By: Diane Dixon (Republican)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

7 provisions identified: 6 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Extra $489 monthly foster care supplement

Beginning July 1, 2016, eligible placements get an extra $489 per month when the Legislature funds it in the Budget Act. Beginning July 1, 2026, that $489 amount rises each year by the California Necessities Index.

More help for teen parents and babies

If you care for a teen parent in a whole family foster home and give the county a shared responsibility plan, your monthly payment goes up by $200. A nonminor dependent parent in a supervised independent living placement also gets $200 more per month after the parenting plan is completed and approved and the responsible adult meets legal criteria. A dependent infant living with a dependent teen parent receives the infant supplement for group homes, and in STRTPs the STRTP infant supplement starting January 1, 2017. When the main foster rate gets a cost‑of‑living raise, these $200 and infant add‑ons go up the same way.

Foster care rates and inflation updates

The department sets one uniform rate for each type of licensed foster care facility. Rates rose 6% on July 1, 1998, and 2.36% on January 1, 2000. Rates also adjust each year by the California Necessities Index starting July 1, 1999, with additional cost‑of‑living adjustments in 2000–01 and after when funded. Another 5% increase took effect on January 1, 2008.

Kin-GAP keeps whole family home payments

If you are a Kin‑GAP relative and you were a whole family foster home right before Kin‑GAP, you get the same caregiver payment in Kin‑GAP that you had in foster care.

Pay when child lives with parenting youth

When a child lives with a parent who gets AFDC‑FC or Kin‑GAP, or on and after July 1, 2017, ARC, the provider rate includes money for the child’s care and supervision. From January 1, 2012 to July 1, 2017, children living with eligible nonminor dependent parents received the same whole family foster home rate as children living with teen parents. Starting July 1, 2017, a child living with a teen parent in a whole family foster home is paid at the uniform rate. From that same date, a child living with an eligible nonminor dependent parent also gets that same rate.

Pre-birth payments for expectant foster youth

Beginning January 1, 2022, pregnant minors and nonminor dependents get an expectant parent payment for the three months before the birth month. The state automates this payment on July 1, 2023, or later when CalSAWS is ready. Before automation, counties must pay a one‑time lump sum equal to three times the monthly amount in the month three months before the due date, or as soon as they learn about the pregnancy, regardless of foster care entry date or pregnancy outcome. These payments are not prorated and are not collected back as overpayments.

State limits funding for local cost increases

If this law raises local agency costs for 2011 realignment programs, it applies only when the state provides yearly funding for the increase. New or higher local service levels above funded amounts do not require extra state reimbursement.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Diane Dixon

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 232 • No: 0

House vote • 9/13/2025

Item 109 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 75 • No: 0

Senate vote • 9/11/2025

Item 193 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 40 • No: 0

legislature vote • 8/29/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 7 • No: 0

legislature vote • 7/14/2025

Vote in CS61

Yes: 7 • No: 0

legislature vote • 6/30/2025

Vote in CS74

Yes: 5 • No: 0

House vote • 6/3/2025

Item 152 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 78 • No: 0

legislature vote • 5/23/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 14 • No: 0

legislature vote • 5/1/2025

Vote in CX11

Yes: 6 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2025.

    10/1/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/1/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

    9/24/2025legislature

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3496.).

    9/13/2025House

  5. Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)

    9/13/2025House

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

    9/12/2025House

  7. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2930.).

    9/11/2025Senate

  8. Ordered to special consent calendar.

    9/9/2025Senate

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    9/2/2025Senate

  10. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

    8/29/2025Senate

  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

    8/29/2025Senate

  12. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    7/14/2025Senate

  13. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    7/1/2025Senate

  14. Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

    6/18/2025Senate

  15. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    6/4/2025Senate

  16. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2004.)

    6/3/2025House

  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    5/27/2025House

  18. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

    5/23/2025House

  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

    5/23/2025House

  20. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

    5/23/2025House

  21. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

    5/14/2025House

  22. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    5/6/2025House

  23. Read second time and amended.

    5/5/2025House

  24. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1).

    5/1/2025House

  25. Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

    2/18/2025House

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/1/2025

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  • Enrolled

    9/16/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    8/29/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    5/23/2025

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  • Amended Assembly

    5/5/2025

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  • Introduced

    1/29/2025

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