California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 13300

WIC § 13300 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 9 · Part 3 · Ch. 5.6

Statute text

(a)Subject to the availability of funding in the act that added this chapter or the annual Budget Act, the department shall contract, as described in Section 13301, with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied undocumented minors who are transferred to the care and custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who are present in this state.

(b)Legal services provided in accordance with subdivision (a) shall be for the sole purpose of providing legal representation to unaccompanied undocumented minors who are in the physical custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or who are residing with a family member or other sponsor.

(c)For purposes of this chapter, the term “unaccompanied undocumented minors” means unaccompanied children as described in Section 279(g)(2) of Title 6 of the United States Code.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 296, Sec. 70. (AB 1096) Effective January 1, 2022.