Dependent children: review hearings.

Existing law requires the court to hold a permanency hearing 12 months after a child enters foster care, and at that hearing, the court is required to determine the permanent plan for that child. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2010, and continuing until January 1, 2014, provides that if a juvenile court orders a permanent plan of adoption, tribal customary adoption, or legal guardianship, that the court retains jurisdiction over the child until the child is adopted or the legal guardianship is established, except as provided. Existing law provides that following establishment of a legal guardianship, the court is authorized to continue jurisdiction over the child as a dependent of the juvenile court or terminate its dependency jurisdiction and retain jurisdiction over the child as a ward of the legal guardianship. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.