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Bill	Child welfare services.	Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services oversees the administration of county public social services, including child welfare services. Existing law authorizes the department to conduct or have conducted audits and reviews in order to meet its obligations for child welfare programs and to ensure the protection of children and families.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1978	California AB 1978 (20132014)	bill	Child welfare services.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	9	29	9	2014-02-19	2014-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/f13ce0dd-c0df-4894-96a1-d297e956c559	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1978	993c060bbe24fd6b941d935c2ae778232a91671dc9a176af7af44d357885ddf3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1978 (20132014) — Child welfare services.

Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services oversees the administration of county public social services, including child welfare services. Existing law authorizes the department to conduct or have conducted audits and reviews in order to meet its obligations for child welfare programs and to ensure the protection of children and families.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/07/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1978 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1978 Jones-Sawyer By Beall — 24–10 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1978 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — 64–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1978 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2014-05-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-07 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 9. Page 5105.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3784.)
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 4915.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6646.)
• 2014-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 10. Page 6661.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 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 768, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f13ce0dd-c0df-4894-96a1-d297e956c559. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).