republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-159.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community care facilities: foster family agencies."
description: "The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing county. The act requires the total foster family agency rate by age group in effect on January 1, 2008, paid to licensed foster family agencies for the placement of children in certified foster family homes to be reduced by 10% on October 1, 2009. The act requires, until January 1, 2012, a foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social workers or fraction thereof in the agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 159"
citation: "California AB 159 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community care facilities: foster family agencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2011-01-19"
last_action: "2011-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49d7992f-9a65-49c2-be0a-f4c0f2fbdba9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159"
source_hash: "f66e79bea8bcc40bcc5caa6727f00be14682bdfd0ceda855e45e7dc6357701c6"
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 159 (20112012) — Community care facilities: foster family agencies.

The California Community Care Facilities Act requires any holder of a valid license issued by the State Department of Social Services to engage in any foster family functions to use only a certified family home, as defined, that has been certified by that agency or a licensed foster family home approved for this use by the licensing county. The act requires the total foster family agency rate by age group in effect on January 1, 2008, paid to licensed foster family agencies for the placement of children in certified foster family homes to be reduced by 10% on October 1, 2009. The act requires, until January 1, 2012, a foster family agency that provides treatment of children in foster families to employ one full-time social work supervisor for every 8 social workers or fraction thereof in the agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/19/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159&version=20110AB15999INT)
2. **03/14/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159&version=20110AB15998AMD)
3. **03/24/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159&version=20110AB15997AMD)
4. **07/25/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159&version=20110AB15995CHP)
5. **AB159** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159)
6. **07/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB159&version=20110AB15996ENR)

## Votes

- AB 159 BEALL Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
- **2011-02-03** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-03-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1177.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-27** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2011-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1688.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-07-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **2011-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 94, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49d7992f-9a65-49c2-be0a-f4c0f2fbdba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).