republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20072008/ab-2070.md

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Bill	Foster care: incarcerated parents.	Foster care: incarcerated parents.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20072008	AB 2070	California AB 2070 (20072008)	bill	Foster care: incarcerated parents.	enacted	Bass	9	32	10	2008-02-19	2008-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/17ed024b-3d36-4554-bb8c-7292a0dce38e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2070	177a13f01324cf779e01293279c62d99b1e3d0c4d2224d58027e1bd9c17ecb85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2070 (20072008) — Foster care: incarcerated parents.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/21/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/08 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2070 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/09/08 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2070 Bass By Alquist — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2070 BASS Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2070 Bass Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BEALL — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bass — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2008-02-28 Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Human Services. referral-committee
• 2008-03-10 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services by unanimous consent, and then be re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2008-03-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2008-03-28 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
• 2008-04-01 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. referral-committee
• 2008-04-02 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2008-04-09 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
• 2008-04-10 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2008-04-17 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2008-04-21 Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage
• 2008-04-22 Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. referral-committee
• 2008-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. referral-committee
• 2008-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 22). Read second time. To third reading. committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, committee-passage-favorable
• 2008-05-27 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 5370.) 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 Judiciary. referral-committee
• 2008-06-11 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) . committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2008-07-01 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) . amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2008-07-02 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2008-08-04 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2008-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. 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
• 2008-08-20 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5218.) 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 70. Noes 4. Page 7061.) committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2008-09-18 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2008-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2008-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 482, Statutes of 2008.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17ed024b-3d36-4554-bb8c-7292a0dce38e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).