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Bill	Children: adoption services.	Existing law requires, upon appropriation by the Legislature of funds for this purpose, that the State Department of Social Services establish a 3-year project in 4 counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles Counties, and one state district office, and further requires that funding to those counties from appropriations in the annual Budget Act be used to provide funding for preadoption and postadoption services to ensure the successful adoption of a targeted population of children who have been in foster care 18 months or more. Existing law requires the department to work with counties to develop requirements for the project, and to provide information on the results of the project to the Legislature, by November 30, 2010.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 295	California AB 295 (20092010)	bill	Children: adoption services.	enacted	Ammiano	7	29	8	2009-02-17	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/43f23db7-edb5-4e56-bcac-0374124bb1c2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB295	f09291267f7ceae0840209eb8382de5026a01ee3664e071509dbe48c932c4ca4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 295 (20092010) — Children: adoption services.

Existing law requires, upon appropriation by the Legislature of funds for this purpose, that the State Department of Social Services establish a 3-year project in 4 counties, including San Francisco and Los Angeles Counties, and one state district office, and further requires that funding to those counties from appropriations in the annual Budget Act be used to provide funding for preadoption and postadoption services to ensure the successful adoption of a targeted population of children who have been in foster care 18 months or more. Existing law requires the department to work with counties to develop requirements for the project, and to provide information on the results of the project to the Legislature, by November 30, 2010.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/09/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB295 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB295 Ammiano By Liu — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 295 Ammiano Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 295 AMMIANO Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ammiano — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2009-03-04 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-09 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
• 2009-03-10 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-04-13 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-04-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1948.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-18 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2009-06-24 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
• 2009-09-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-10 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2376.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3364.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 427, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/43f23db7-edb5-4e56-bcac-0374124bb1c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).