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Committee advances bill to increase outreach for foster youth tax credit

5114020 · July 1, 2025
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Summary

SB 624 would require counties and juvenile probation departments to mail notices to nonminor foster youth about the California Foster Youth Tax Credit and direct CDSS to issue guidance; the committee passed the measure to Appropriations unanimously.

The Assembly Committee on Human Services voted to pass SB 624, known in the hearing as the Foster Act, to the Assembly Appropriations Committee after author and advocates told members the bill would increase access to the California Foster Youth Tax Credit.

Senator Caballero, the author, said the credit aims to reduce poverty among current and former foster youth, whose annual incomes average between $9,000 and $16,000. “To close the gap, SB 624 will require county child…

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