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Bill	Foster care, adoption, and dependent children.	Foster care, adoption, and dependent children.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20072008	AB 2651	California AB 2651 (20072008)	bill	Foster care adoption and dependent children.	enacted	Aghazarian	11	33	10	2008-02-22	2008-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7fa234a0-4ad7-4c42-bb14-25dad4f2ff37	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB2651	691b6dff5cfc17c7aeb594f6da5b87504bffeb11ba66bfde834483a0abbc9ae1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 04/03/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/22/08 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/05/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/10/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/04/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/18/08 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/30/08 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2651 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/08 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/7fa234a0-4ad7-4c42-bb14-25dad4f2ff37. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).