California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1190: Child welfare: transport escort services.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Section 7539.2 to the Business and Professions Code, to amend Section 1596.653 of, and to add Sections 1596.69, 1596.691, and 1596.692 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 5353 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to child welfare. child welfare Child welfare: transport escort services. (1) Existing law prohibits a transport escort service from accompanying or transporting a minor to any residential facility or institution located outside the state, unless the person or persons transporting or accompanying the minor are trustline-registered childcare providers…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to add Section 7539.2 to the Business and Professions Code, to amend Section 1596.653 of, and to add Sections 1596.69, 1596.691, and 1596.692 to, the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 5353 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to child welfare. child welfare Child welfare: transport escort services. (1) Existing law prohibits a transport escort service from accompanying or transporting a minor to any residential facility or institution located outside the state, unless the person or persons transporting or accompanying the minor are trustline-registered childcare providers. Existing law also requires every transport escort service that accompanies or transports a minor who is a resident of California to any residential facility or institution located outside the state to first provide the minor’s parents, custodial parent, or legal guardian with specified information, including, among others things, a description of the childcare provider trustline registry. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. This bill, the Safe Passage for Youth Act, would expand those provisions relating to transport escort services to apply when accompanying or transporting a minor, without regard to whether the destination is an out-of-state residential facility or institution. The bill would revise the definition of a “transport escort service” and also make these provisions inapplicable to the transport of minors by a transportation network …