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Bill	Foster children: mental health services.	Existing law provides for the Adoption Assistance Program, administered by the State Department of Social Services, which provides for the payment by the department and counties of cash assistance to eligible families that adopt eligible children, and bases the amount of the payment on the needs of the child and the circumstances of the family. Under existing law, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency is required, among other duties, to provide the prospective adoptive family with information on the availability of mental health services through the Medi-Cal program or other programs. Existing law provides that a foster child whose adoption has become final and who is receiving or is eligible to receive Adoption Assistance Program assistance, including Medi-Cal, and whose foster care court supervision has been terminated, shall be provided medically necessary specialty mental health services by the local mental health plan in the county of residence of his or her adoptive parents, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1790	California AB 1790 (20132014)	bill	Foster children: mental health services.	enacted	Dickinson	10	36	7	2014-02-18	2014-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/121b59ca-cd6e-4550-ad00-168429e3ca8c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1790	1a9177c7a91a9c5cdcb170005a36b5170587a532f19ffed782ec18f34a490040	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1790 (20132014) — Foster children: mental health services.

Existing law provides for the Adoption Assistance Program, administered by the State Department of Social Services, which provides for the payment by the department and counties of cash assistance to eligible families that adopt eligible children, and bases the amount of the payment on the needs of the child and the circumstances of the family. Under existing law, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency is required, among other duties, to provide the prospective adoptive family with information on the availability of mental health services through the Medi-Cal program or other programs. Existing law provides that a foster child whose adoption has become final and who is receiving or is eligible to receive Adoption Assistance Program assistance, including Medi-Cal, and whose foster care court supervision has been terminated, shall be provided medically necessary specialty mental health services by the local mental health plan in the county of residence of his or her adoptive parents, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/11/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1790 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/21/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 17–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1790 Dickinson By Beall — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1790 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1790 Dickinson By Beall — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1790 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dickinson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2014-02-27 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-04-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5251.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-15 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4376.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-11 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2014-08-11 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2014-08-13 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2014-08-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4560.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-19 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6181.)
• 2014-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6185.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 766, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/121b59ca-cd6e-4550-ad00-168429e3ca8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).