---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care."
description: "Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of his or her parents or guardian, and establishes procedures to determine placement of a dependent child."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 404"
citation: "California AB 404 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 35
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37d05e97-8a79-4917-802b-00946eeb800d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404"
source_hash: "a596523dbcfcd4ce0625dc519c52c85b06c89758343e8e7d5de8b09392b39a6c"
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 404 (20172018) — Foster care.

Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of his or her parents or guardian, and establishes procedures to determine placement of a dependent child.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40499INT)
2. **03/06/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40498AMD)
3. **04/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40497AMD)
4. **05/16/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40496AMD)
5. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40495AMD)
6. **06/29/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40494AMD)
7. **07/18/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40493AMD)
8. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40492AMD)
9. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40491AMD)
10. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40489CHP)
11. **AB404** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404)
12. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404&version=20170AB40490ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 404 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB404 Mark Stone By Wiener — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-07** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1117.)
- **2017-04-20** (pending re-refer to Com. on JUD.)
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-17** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1856.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2850.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2017-09-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3496.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 732, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37d05e97-8a79-4917-802b-00946eeb800d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).