Title
Title
Child Support | AB 1058 Program Funding Methodologies and Fiscal Year 2025-26 Funding Allocations (Action Required)
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Summary
Summary
The Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee recommends allocating funds for the Assembly Bill 1058 Child Support Commissioner and Family Law Facilitator Program based on the current funding methodologies, with updated workload and population data. The workload-based funding methodology of the Child Support Commissioner program was implemented in fiscal year (FY) 2019-20, the population-based funding methodology of the Family Law Facilitator program was implemented in FY 2021-22, and the underlying data for both are updated every two years. The committee also recommends approving base and federal drawdown allocations for the AB 1058 program funding for FY 2025-26. The funds are provided through a cooperative agreement between the California Department of Child Support Services and the Judicial Council and requires the council to annually approve these funding allocations.
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Recommendation
Recommendation
The Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee recommends that the Judicial Council, effective July 18, 2025:
1. Approve the committee’s recommended base allocation for the Child Support Commissioner program for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27, as described below and set forth in Attachment A, maintaining the current funding methodology approved by the council in 2019 with updated workload data.
2. Approve the committee’s recommended base allocation for the Family Law Facilitator program for FY 2025-26 and FY 2026-27, as described below and set forth in Attachment B, maintaining the current funding methodology approved by the council in 2021 with updated population data.
3. Approve the committee’s recommendation for FY 2025-26 AB 1058 program funding for the courts composed of the base funding allocations derived from recommendations 1 and 2 and federal drawdown funding based on the methodology adopted by the Judicial Council in January 2019, as set forth in Attachments C and D.
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