republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1909.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster children: placement: suspension and expulsion: notifications."
description: "(1) Existing law requires each local educational agency to designate a staff person as the educational liaison for foster children, as defined. Existing law requires the educational liaison to ensure and facilitate the proper educational placement, enrollment in school, and checkout from school of foster children, and to assist foster children when transferring from one school to another school or from one school district to another school district in ensuring the proper transfer of credits, records, and grades."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1909"
citation: "California AB 1909 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster children: placement: suspension and expulsion: notifications."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ammiano"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2012-02-22"
last_action: "2012-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a1f32f1-4859-4a18-9e0c-3b69ce9f232e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909"
source_hash: "88c82df1cc1efa94fa82abdd76af0d3155dc4ad912219c8af421949dd6f4436c"
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 1909 (20112012) — Foster children: placement: suspension and expulsion: notifications.

(1) Existing law requires each local educational agency to designate a staff person as the educational liaison for foster children, as defined. Existing law requires the educational liaison to ensure and facilitate the proper educational placement, enrollment in school, and checkout from school of foster children, and to assist foster children when transferring from one school to another school or from one school district to another school district in ensuring the proper transfer of credits, records, and grades.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190999INT)
2. **03/29/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190998AMD)
3. **05/16/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190997AMD)
4. **06/13/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190996AMD)
5. **07/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190995AMD)
6. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190994AMD)
7. **09/30/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190992CHP)
8. **AB1909** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909)
9. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1909&version=20110AB190993ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1909 Ammiano By Vargas — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1909 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Education. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1909 AMMIANO Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Human Services Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ammiano — primary (person)
- Brownley — author (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2012-03-05** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 9). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5052.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-07** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** 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 33. 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 80. Noes 0. Page 6650.). `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 849, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a1f32f1-4859-4a18-9e0c-3b69ce9f232e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).