Foster children.

Existing law makes legislative findings and declarations regarding the need to provide resources and support to dependent minor parents. Existing law encourages the State Department of Social Services and local child welfare agencies to collect data on the number of minors in foster care who give birth and the number of minor parents who remain in placement with their minor children, and to collect information to be used to develop a more cost-effective infant supplemental payment rate structure to more adequately reimburse caregivers. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.