republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1997.md

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Bill	Foster care.	(1) Existing law provides for the early implementation, by counties and foster family agencies, of the resource family approval process, which is a unified, family friendly, and child-centered approval process that replaces the multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving adoptive families. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement the resource family approval process in all counties and with all foster family agencies by January 1, 2017.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1997	California AB 1997 (20152016)	bill	Foster care.	enacted	Mark Stone	11	29	8	2016-02-16	2016-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/d11ab8cc-7226-4f53-9233-aaa84cd949c2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1997	e8b3a4b8e4f3c589e380e8dc13d5128f94a4cd12d1b22dc729db51e41c9a99b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1997 (20152016) — Foster care.

(1) Existing law provides for the early implementation, by counties and foster family agencies, of the resource family approval process, which is a unified, family friendly, and child-centered approval process that replaces the multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving adoptive families. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement the resource family approval process in all counties and with all foster family agencies by January 1, 2017.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/03/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1997 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/31/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1997 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1997 Mark Stone By McGuire — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1997 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5095.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-08-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5370.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6452.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 612, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d11ab8cc-7226-4f53-9233-aaa84cd949c2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).