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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Pupils: foster children: special education."
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description: "Existing law requires a pupil who is placed in a licensed children's institution or foster family home to attend programs operated by the local educational agency unless the pupil is entitled to remain in his or her school of origin, the pupil has an individualized education program requiring placement elsewhere, or the pupil's parent or guardian, or other person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, determines that it is in the best interests of the pupil to be placed in another educational program."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20112012"
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identifier: "SB 121"
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citation: "California SB 121 (20112012)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Pupils: foster children: special education."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 37
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2011-01-24"
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last_action: "2012-09-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17215df2-ffc2-44f4-9a9a-79f09a7ff64c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121"
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source_hash: "91943ec9133389e4f4d695ee77f738bf996df7b8c99a442ef4ba1bf89cc516ca"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 121 (20112012) — Pupils: foster children: special education.
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Existing law requires a pupil who is placed in a licensed children's institution or foster family home to attend programs operated by the local educational agency unless the pupil is entitled to remain in his or her school of origin, the pupil has an individualized education program requiring placement elsewhere, or the pupil's parent or guardian, or other person holding the right to make educational decisions for the pupil, determines that it is in the best interests of the pupil to be placed in another educational program.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/24/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12199INT)
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2. **03/14/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12195AMD)
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3. **03/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12198AMD)
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4. **04/26/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12197AMD)
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5. **05/17/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12196AMD)
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6. **06/06/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12194AMD)
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7. **06/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12193AMD)
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8. **09/26/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12191CHP)
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9. **SB121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121)
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10. **08/31/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB121&version=20110SB12192ENR)
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## Votes
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- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 121 Liu Senate Third Reading By BROWNLEY — **80–0** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB121 Liu Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading — **26–12** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Liu — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2011-01-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2011-01-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
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- **2011-02-10** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2011-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-04-01** Set for hearing April 13.
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- **2011-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 639.) (April 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-04-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2011-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
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- **2011-05-03** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2011-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
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- **2011-05-10** Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2011-05-13** Set for hearing May 23.
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- **2011-05-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2011-05-23** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
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- **2011-05-25** Set for hearing May 26.
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- **2011-05-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1112.) (May 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2011-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1220.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2011-06-13** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2011-06-28** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
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- **2012-03-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2012-06-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-06-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2012-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2012-08-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2012-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2012-08-16** From consent calendar.
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- **2012-08-16** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2012-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6342.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2012-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2012-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4961.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2012-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2012-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2012-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 571, Statutes of 2012.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17215df2-ffc2-44f4-9a9a-79f09a7ff64c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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