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Bill	Adoption assistance: federal law.	Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services is required to provide assistance to families adopting children from the foster care system. Payments may be made for ongoing expenses or for one-time adoption expenses, as provided. Existing law requires the department to actively seek and make maximum use of federal funds that may be available for those purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 154	California AB 154 (20092010)	bill	Adoption assistance: federal law.	enacted	Evans	8	31	6	2009-01-23	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/c2dbdfeb-b36e-4a2b-9763-c44473a20a33	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB154	c40e27e44ead1cd1c3ae83a93d0995b3dceb3e768889ec77cbe4c0b60ee1d8a6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 154 (20092010) — Adoption assistance: federal law.

Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services is required to provide assistance to families adopting children from the foster care system. Payments may be made for ongoing expenses or for one-time adoption expenses, as provided. Existing law requires the department to actively seek and make maximum use of federal funds that may be available for those purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 01/23/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/14/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/02/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB154 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 154 EVANS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB154 Evans By Liu — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 154 EVANS Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-01-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-01-26 From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
• 2009-01-26 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-02-26 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-16 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
• 2009-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 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
• 2009-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2009-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-29 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1868.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2009-07-07 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-07-09 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-07-13 Ordered to third reading.
• 2009-09-02 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2204.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3152.)
• 2009-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3184.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 222, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2dbdfeb-b36e-4a2b-9763-c44473a20a33. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).