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Bill	Schools: pupils in foster care: course credit.	(1) Existing law requires a local educational agency to designate a staff person as the educational liaison for foster children and requires the liaison to assist foster children when transferring from one school to another or from one school district to another in ensuring proper transfer of credits, records, and grades.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 578	California SB 578 (20112012)	bill	Schools: pupils in foster care: course credit.	enacted	Negrete McLeod	7	23	7	2011-02-17	2011-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/f4bba4e8-0862-475c-b602-27f7cb7f606d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB578	750a4ad8824cfac87497481cf35c37a1f52480dbf5dda66ba175844c9b8ac609	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 578 (20112012) — Schools: pupils in foster care: course credit.

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

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/04/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB578 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB578 Negrete McLeod — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 578 Negrete McLeod Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB578 Negrete McLeod Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-03-11 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2011-03-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 430.) (March 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-31 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-13 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 599.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-14 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 710.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-02 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-29 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
• 2011-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2596.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-25 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2154.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 472, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f4bba4e8-0862-475c-b602-27f7cb7f606d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).