"Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill allowing a broad range of relatives to step in as children's caregivers if their parents are deported, a measure that had provoked a firestorm of conservative criticism. Assembly Bill 495 will also bar daycare providers from collecting immigration information about a child or their parents, and allow parents to nominate a temporary legal guardian for their child in family court."
"The most controversial aspect of the bill concerns an obscure, decades-old form called a caregiver's authorization affidavit. Relatives of a child whose parents are temporarily unavailable, and with whom the child is living, can attest to being the child's caregiver; the designation allows the adult to enroll the child in school, take them to the doctor and consent to medical and dental care."
A bill was signed into law broadening which relatives can serve as caregivers for children when parents are deported. The law bars daycare providers from collecting immigration information about children or their parents and enables parents to nominate a temporary legal guardian in family court. The measure expands eligibility to sign a decades-old caregiver's authorization affidavit, which allows an adult to enroll a child in school and consent to medical and dental care. The law was part of a slate of state responses to federal deportation enforcement, and it faced conservative criticism and advocacy efforts before enactment.
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