Foster care: placement: family finding.

Subdivision (f) of Section 309 was deleted. It had required that each year a county's kinship placement rate fell below the statewide average (or, for Indian children, below the ICWA preference rate), the county board of supervisors must include the topic on the agenda of at least one regularly noticed full-board meeting. The discussion could cover whether the county welfare director communicated with the Center for Excellence in Family Finding, what actions the county was taking to increase relative placements, and whether those actions would be included in a county self-assessment or system improvement plan. A social services committee could handle the topic instead of the full board.

Section 3 corrected the constitutional citation from 'Article XIIIB' to 'Article XIII B' (added a space between the Roman numeral and the letter). This is a typo fix; both refer to the same provision governing state-mandated local program funding.

The bill header was changed from the enrolled format (with passage dates, clerk signatures, and governor receipt line) to the chaptered law format (STATE OF CALIFORNIA AUTHENTICATED ELECTRONIC LEGAL MATERIAL, CHAPTER 436, with governor approval date of October 7, 2025).

Page numbers changed from 97 to 96 and page headers changed from 'AB 562' to 'Ch. 436' throughout the document.

The digest now states that the bill imposes a state-mandated local program by increasing duties of county welfare departments, which triggers fiscal analysis requirements under California law (e.g., Proposition 218, Government Code Section 17556). This is significant because it may require the state to reimburse counties for the new costs.

Removed the redundant word 'both' from 'do both all of the following' in Section 2, changing it to 'do all of the following.'

Page numbers changed from 99 to 98 throughout the bill due to re-pagination after the digest addition.