JUVENILE

• AB 505, Ting. The Office of Youth and Community Restoration. Authorizes the Office of Youth and Community Restoration (OYCR) ombudsperson to access juvenile detention facilities at any time without prior notice and to access juvenile facility records at all times. An act to amend Sections 209, 827, 1991, 1995, 2200, 2200.2, and 2200.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• AB 937, McKinnor. Dependency: family reunification services. Requires a juvenile court to order, except in specified very limited circumstances, six additional months of reunification services to a parent or guardian when the court finds at a permanency review hearing that reasonable reunification services have not been provided to the parent or guardian. An act to amend Sections 361.5 and 366.22 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• AB 954, Bryan. Dependency: court-ordered services. Clarifies that a parent or guardian shall not be considered to be non-compliant with the court- ordered case plan when there is evidence that the parent or guardian is unable to pay for a court-ordered service, or when payment for a service would create an undue financial hardship to the parent or guardian. An act to amend Section 362 of, and to add Section 362.8 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• AB 1643, Bauer-Kahan. Juveniles: informal supervision. This bill increases the threshold amount of victim restitution which makes a minor presumptively ineligible for a program of informal supervision from $1,000 to $5,000. An act to amend Sections 653.5 and 654.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• SB 448, Becker. Juveniles: detention hearings. This bill prohibits the juvenile court from basing the decision to detain a minor in custody solely on the minor's county of residence. An act to amend Sections 635 and 636 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• SB 463, Wahab. Dependent children. This bill eliminates the evidentiary presumption in juvenile court that a parent or guardian's lack of participation or progress in a treatment program endangers the child, for purposes of determining whether the child should be returned to the parent or guardian's custody. An act to amend Sections 366.21, 366.22, and 366.25 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• SB 545, Rubio. Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction. This bill requires the juvenile court to consider a minor's status as a victim of human trafficking or sexual abuse when determining whether to transfer a case from juvenile court to adult criminal court, or remand back to the juvenile court in cases where the case had previously been transferred to the criminal court. An act to amend Sections 707 and 707.5 of, and to add Section 707.2 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.

• SB 578, Ashby. Juvenile court: dependents: removal. This bill requires a social worker to report on, and a juvenile court to consider, the potential harms that may result from removing a child from their parent, guardian, or Indian custodian's custody; and, if the child is or there is reason to know the child is an Indian child, requires the social worker to report on what efforts have been made to contact the child's tribe. An act to amend Section 319 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to juveniles.