Text of CA AB 2130 (2006)

skip to content home accessibility FAQ feedback sitemap login x Quick Search: Bill Number Bill Keyword Home Bill Information California Law Publications Other Resources My Subscriptions My Favorites Bill Information >> Bill Search >> Text Bill Text PDF2 Add To My Favorites | Version: 02/21/06 - Introduced AB-2130 Placement of children: values.(2005-2006) Text >> Votes >> History >> Bill Analysis >> Today's Law As Amended >> Compare Versions >> Status >> Comments To Author >> Add To My Favorites >> SHARE THIS: Bill Start CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2005–2006 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2130 Introduced by Assembly Member DeVore February 21, 2006 An act to add Section 8717.5 to the Family Code, and to add Section 366.24 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to the placement of children. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2130, as introduced, DeVore. Placement of children: values. Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to terminate parental rights with respect to certain dependent children and to take specified action with respect to those children, including placing a child for adoption or appointing a legal guardian for a child. Existing law also governs the adoption of children who have been placed for adoption by a licensed county adoption agency or the State Department of Social Services. This bill would, with respect to a dependent child for whom parental rights have been terminated or a child who has been placed for adoption by a licensed county adoption agency or the State Department of Social Services, require a court to consider the religious, cultural, moral, and ethnic values of the child or of his or her birth parents, if those values are known or ascertainable by the exercise of reasonable care before placing the child for adoption or appointing a legal guardian for the child. 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 8717.5 is added to the Family Code, to read: 8717.5. Prior to granting a petition to adopt a child who has been placed for adoption by a licensed county adoption agency or the department, the court shall consider the religious, cultural, moral, and ethnic values of the child or of his or her birth parents, if those values are known or ascertainable by the exercise of reasonable care. SEC. 2. Section 366.24 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read: 366.24. If the court terminates parental rights to a child pursuant to Section 366.26, then prior to appointing a legal guardian for that child or placing the child for adoption, the court shall consider the religious, cultural, moral, and ethnic values of the child or of his or her birth parents, if those values are known or ascertainable by the exercise of reasonable care.