---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care: placement transition planning."
description: "Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires, prior to making a change in the placement of a dependent child, a social worker or probation officer to develop and implement a placement preservation strategy to preserve the dependent child's placement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 896"
citation: "California AB 896 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fostercare", "placementtransitionplanning"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elhawary"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca6199ff-91af-4545-8eef-e8688ad91b8b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896"
source_hash: "ac65fc88e19869f22ecc829e7f1c12fbee3b22c12bc3df03a4389561dee207be"
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 896 (20252026) — Foster care: placement transition planning.

Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires, prior to making a change in the placement of a dependent child, a social worker or probation officer to develop and implement a placement preservation strategy to preserve the dependent child's placement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896&version=20250AB89699INT)
2. **03/17/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896&version=20250AB89698AMD)
3. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896&version=20250AB89697AMD)
4. **10/10/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896&version=20250AB89695CHP)
5. **AB896** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896)
6. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896&version=20250AB89696ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB896 Elhawary et al. By Ashby — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 896 Elhawary Consent Calendar Second Day — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 896 Elhawary Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Elhawary — primary (person)
- Rivas — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2025-03-17** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1569.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2931.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3381.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 564, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca6199ff-91af-4545-8eef-e8688ad91b8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).