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Bill	California Fostering Connections to Success Act.	(1) Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parent or parents, and provides for a range of child welfare, foster care, and adoption assistance services for which these children may be eligible.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 12	California AB 12 (20092010)	bill	California Fostering Connections to Success Act.	enacted	Beall	15	47	9	2008-12-01	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/c1046d76-17b2-410a-b1bf-fb88f9cd3ef7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB12	34a998091545f1137662f21427424494dc075fe0cf0e4761fe9d79eb3474b820	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 12 (20092010) — California Fostering Connections to Success Act.

(1) Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parent or parents, and provides for a range of child welfare, foster care, and adoption assistance services for which these children may be eligible.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/08 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/23/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/05/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/13/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/29/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 05/27/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 06/29/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/02/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/18/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/20/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
12. 08/30/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
14. AB12 (committee substitute) — source
15. 09/13/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• W/O REF. TO FILE AB12 Beall By Liu — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 12 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 12 Beall Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• 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. — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Audra Strickland — coauthor (person)
• Bass — author (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Brownley — coauthor (person)
• Carter — coauthor (person)
• Cedillo — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• Coto — coauthor (person)
• Davis — coauthor (person)
• De La Torre — coauthor (person)
• De Leon — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Ducheny — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Evans — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Gilmore — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Hernandez — coauthor (person)
• Huber — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• John A. Perez — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Krekorian — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Liu — principal coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Nestande — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Price — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Saldana — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Solorio — coauthor (person)
• Steinberg — coauthor (person)
• Swanson — coauthor (person)
• Torlakson — coauthor (person)
• Torrico — coauthor (person)
• Villines — coauthor (person)
• Wiggins — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)
• Yee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2008-12-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2008-12-02 From printer. May be heard in committee January 1.
• 2009-02-05 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-23 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
• 2009-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-04-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-04-13 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
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-04-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-28 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2010-01-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (January 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-01-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-25 (Corrected January 28.)
• 2010-01-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-27 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 3899.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-04-05 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-04-05 (Corrected April 20.)
• 2010-05-27 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2010-06-10 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-28 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2010-08-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-09 In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2010-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-23 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-26 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-08-27 Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended.
• 2010-08-27 (Ayes 21. Noes 11. Page 4960.)
• 2010-08-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-31 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2010-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-08-31 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 5070.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2010-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 6948.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-15 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 559, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1046d76-17b2-410a-b1bf-fb88f9cd3ef7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).