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Bill	Minors and nonminor dependents: out-of-home placement.	Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) , Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) , and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to youth up to 19, 20, and 21 years of age, described as nonminor dependents, if specified conditions are met, commencing January 1, 2012.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1712	California AB 1712 (20112012)	bill	Minors and nonminor dependents: out-of-home placement.	enacted	Beall	11	33	10	2012-02-16	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7e39e44a-966b-41aa-8e99-2fffd967e99b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1712	0250344be3b93344ee6646ac9a748329a921b569d5799f13b981fb264096ddd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1712 (20112012) — Minors and nonminor dependents: out-of-home placement.

Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) , Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) , and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to youth up to 19, 20, and 21 years of age, described as nonminor dependents, if specified conditions are met, commencing January 1, 2012.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1712 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1712 Beall By Liu — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1712 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1712 BEALL Third Reading Urgency — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Committee amendments. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Beall — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-21 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
• 2012-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5111.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 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. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-13 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-08-21 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4942.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6680.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 846, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e39e44a-966b-41aa-8e99-2fffd967e99b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).