---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community care facilities: foster family agencies."
description: "The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing county. The act requires, until January 1, 2011, a foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social workers or fraction thereof in the agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2474"
citation: "California AB 2474 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community care facilities: foster family agencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2010-02-19"
last_action: "2010-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d68c6dff-dff9-48a6-9e8b-0fc215781216"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474"
source_hash: "2298a6df84705e33f82de219f2c49aac36feb9a9e6af22260c07065da95cb392"
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 2474 (20092010) — Community care facilities: foster family agencies.

The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing county. The act requires, until January 1, 2011, a foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social workers or fraction thereof in the agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474&version=20090AB247499INT)
2. **04/08/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474&version=20090AB247498AMD)
3. **07/06/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474&version=20090AB247496CHP)
4. **AB2474** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474)
5. **06/18/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2474&version=20090AB247497ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2474 Beall — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2474 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Blakeslee — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-08** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5047.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2010-06-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-14** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-06-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3946.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-06-17** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-06-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:50 p.m.
- **2010-07-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 43, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d68c6dff-dff9-48a6-9e8b-0fc215781216`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).