---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care, adoption, and dependent children."
description: "Foster care, adoption, and dependent children."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 2651"
citation: "California AB 2651 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster care", "adoption", "and dependent children."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aghazarian"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 33
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2008-02-22"
last_action: "2008-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fa234a0-4ad7-4c42-bb14-25dad4f2ff37"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651"
source_hash: "691b6dff5cfc17c7aeb594f6da5b87504bffeb11ba66bfde834483a0abbc9ae1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2651 (20072008) — Foster care, adoption, and dependent children.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/22/08 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265199INT)
2. **04/03/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265198AMD)
3. **04/17/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265197AMD)
4. **04/22/08 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265196AMD)
5. **06/05/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265195AMD)
6. **07/10/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265194AMD)
7. **08/04/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265193AMD)
8. **08/18/08 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265192AMD)
9. **09/30/08 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265190CHP)
10. **AB2651** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651)
11. **09/11/08 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651&version=20070AB265191ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2651 Aghazarian Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2651 AGHAZARIAN Third Reading Urgency — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2651 Aghazarian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aghazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2008-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2008-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2008-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2008-04-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Human Services Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2008-04-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2008-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2008-04-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2008-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-05-27** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5388.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2008-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services and Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2008-06-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-06-11** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Safety with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-06-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2008-07-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-14** Place on Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2008-08-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2008-08-12** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-08-18** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2008-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2008-08-22** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5321.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2008-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2008-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 7073.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2008-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2008-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2008-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 701, Statutes of 2008.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fa234a0-4ad7-4c42-bb14-25dad4f2ff37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).