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SB-1284 Adoption: internet website.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 04/08/2024 09:00 PM
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Amended  IN  Senate  April 08, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1284

Introduced by Senators Nguyen and Grove

February 15, 2024

An act to add Section 16134 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to adoption.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1284, as amended, Nguyen. Adoption: internet website.
Existing law authorizes a county to perform home-finding and placement functions, investigate, examine, and make reports upon petitions for adoption filed in the superior court, act as a placement agency in the placement of children for adoption, accept relinquishments for adoption, and perform any other functions in connection with adoption that the department deems necessary, or to do any of them. Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services may provide state adoption services in a county that has not established a county adoption agency.
This bill would, no later than June 30, 2025, require the department to create, operate, maintain, and update, as needed, the internet website www.adoption.ca.gov, as specified, and would require the State Department of Public Health to display a hyperlink to this internet website on the www.abortion.ca.gov internet website. specified.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 16134 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

16134.
 (a) (1) The State Department of Social Services shall create, operate, maintain, and update, as needed, an internet website at www.adoption.ca.gov.
(2) On the www.adoption.ca.gov internet website, the department shall provide information related to adoption in California with specific sections focused on each of the following:
(A) Parents seeking to give up their infants for adoption.
(B) Adults seeking to adopt a child.
(C) Agencies and entities facilitating adoptions.
(D) Other adoption-related information the department deems relevant.
(b) The department shall prominently display a hyperlink to the www.adoption.ca.gov internet website on its internet website and promote www.adoption.ca.gov to the general public.

(c)The State Department of Public Health shall prominently display a hyperlink to the www.adoption.ca.gov internet website on the www.abortion.ca.gov internet website that it administers.

(d)

(c) The department and the State Department of Public Health shall implement the requirements of this section no later than June 30, 2025.