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Bill	Relative caregivers and foster parents.	(1) Existing law authorizes a social worker to take a child who is at risk of abuse or neglect into temporary custody under specified circumstances. Existing law requires the social worker to investigate the circumstances of the child and the facts surrounding the taking of the child into custody. Existing law requires that the social worker immediately release the child to the custody of the child's parent or guardian, or other responsible relative, except under certain conditions. If the child is not released to the custody of his or her parent or guardian, the child is deemed to be detained, and a detention hearing must be conducted before the expiration of the next judicial day after a petition to declare the minor a dependent child of the juvenile court has been filed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 938	California AB 938 (20092010)	bill	Relative caregivers and foster parents.	enacted	Committee on Judiciary	10	30	8	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/9c6b68c2-0cd3-45ad-96c9-3f28e2cbbe0c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB938	14d851c1242a07c3dc3c0755d690de9c20713c23657573ec2820552113e9ef7d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 938 (20092010) — Relative caregivers and foster parents.

(1) Existing law authorizes a social worker to take a child who is at risk of abuse or neglect into temporary custody under specified circumstances. Existing law requires the social worker to investigate the circumstances of the child and the facts surrounding the taking of the child into custody. Existing law requires that the social worker immediately release the child to the custody of the child's parent or guardian, or other responsible relative, except under certain conditions. If the child is not released to the custody of his or her parent or guardian, the child is deemed to be detained, and a detention hearing must be conducted before the expiration of the next judicial day after a petition to declare the minor a dependent child of the juvenile court has been filed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/01/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB938 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/21/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Assembly 3rd Reading AB938 Committee on JUD. (Feuer) By Liu — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Human Services. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 938 JUD. Assembly Third Reading By FEUER — pass (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 938 JUD. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By FEUER — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Judiciary — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2009-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-16 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-04-21 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 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. 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 77. Noes 0. Page 1963.) 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
• 2009-06-18 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 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-07-13 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-19 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
• 2009-08-27 In committee: Held under submission.
• 2009-09-03 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
• 2009-09-08 Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
• 2009-09-09 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-10 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2364.) 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 78. Noes 0. Page 3370.) 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 261, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c6b68c2-0cd3-45ad-96c9-3f28e2cbbe0c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).