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 SB-1051 Foster care: childcare.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 02/12/2026 09:00 PM

SB1051:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Corrected
 April 23, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1051

Introduced by Senator Menjivar
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Schiavo)

February 12, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 10219 and 11461.6 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1051, as introduced, Menjivar.
 Foster care: childcare.

Existing law establishes the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children, to be implemented at the discretion of each county, for the purpose of stabilizing foster children with families at the time of placement by providing a time-limited payment or voucher for childcare following the child’s placement, or for a child whose parent is in foster care, and by providing the family with a childcare navigator to assist the family in accessing long-term subsidized childcare. 

Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law establishes childcare resource and referral programs to serve a defined geographic area and provide prescribed services, including, making referrals
 to licensed child daycare facilities and the provision of childcare navigators to support children in foster care, children previously in foster care upon return to their home of origin, and children of parents involved in the child welfare system, including any child who meets the eligibility criteria for the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children.

This bill would authorize childcare navigators to refer foster children to the county welfare department for eligibility and approval under the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children, and would require participating county welfare departments to determine eligibility of that referred child for the program.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 10219 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

10219.

 (a) For purposes of this chapter, child care childcare resource and referral programs, established to serve a defined geographic area, shall provide the following services:

(1) (A) Identification of the full range of existing child care childcare services through information provided by all relevant public and private agencies in the areas of service, and the development of a resource file
 of those services which
 that shall be maintained and updated at least quarterly. These services shall include, but not be limited to, family child care childcare homes, public and private child care childcare programs, full-time and part-time programs, and infant, preschool, and extended care programs.

(B) The resource file shall include, but not be limited to, the following information:

(i) Type of program.

(ii) Hours of
 service.

(iii) Ages of children served.

(iv) Fees and eligibility for services.

(v) Significant program information.

(2) (A) (i) Establishment of a referral process which that responds to parental need for information and which is provided with provides full recognition of the confidentiality rights of parents. Resource and referral
 programs shall make referrals to licensed child day care facilities. Referrals shall be made to unlicensed care facilities only if there is no requirement that the facility be licensed. The referral process shall afford parents maximum access to all referral information. This access shall include, but is not limited to, telephone referrals to be made available for at least 30 hours per week as part of a full week of operation. Every effort shall be made to reach all parents within the defined geographic area, including, but not limited to, any of the following:

(I) Toll-free telephone lines.

(II) Office space convenient to parents and providers.

(III) Referrals in languages which
 that are spoken in the community.

(ii) Each child care childcare resource and referral program shall publicize its se