republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-287.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Persons with developmental disabilities: employment."
description: "Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, grants persons with developmental disabilities the right to receive services and supports to meet their needs. Existing law requires that the State Department of Developmental Services contract with private nonprofit corporations for the operation of regional centers to obtain services and supports for an individual with a developmental disability in accordance with his or her individual program plan (IPP) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 287"
citation: "California AB 287 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Persons with developmental disabilities: employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2009-02-13"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59fa2a7a-a135-46ad-91bd-a23fc9aa2f18"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287"
source_hash: "b9ee9e9e16a35e783fe0966b5c1c55c57f5ab0a0e74a63e5b963424fe854d662"
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 287 (20092010) — Persons with developmental disabilities: employment.

Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, grants persons with developmental disabilities the right to receive services and supports to meet their needs. Existing law requires that the State Department of Developmental Services contract with private nonprofit corporations for the operation of regional centers to obtain services and supports for an individual with a developmental disability in accordance with his or her individual program plan (IPP) .

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28799INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28798AMD)
3. **05/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28797AMD)
4. **06/10/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28796AMD)
5. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28795AMD)
6. **09/02/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28794AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28792CHP)
8. **AB287** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287)
9. **09/11/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB287&version=20090AB28793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 287 BEALL Assembly Third Reading Amend By BEALL Set #1 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 287 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 287 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB287 Beall By Alquist — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
- Buchanan — coauthor (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Eng — coauthor (person)
- Fuentes — coauthor (person)
- Krekorian — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Yamada — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2009-03-26** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-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`
- **2009-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 1621.). `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-26** Action rescinded and record expunged whereby a final roll call vote was taken.
- **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 1716.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-10** 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`
- **2009-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-17** 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`
- **2009-08-17** (Corrected August 17.)
- **2009-08-17** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2009-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 10. Page 2165.) `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. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 3191.)
- **2009-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 3219.) `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 231, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59fa2a7a-a135-46ad-91bd-a23fc9aa2f18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).