republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-2767.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care: caregivers: information."
description: "Existing law states the findings and declarations of the Legislature that a caregiver of a foster child should have certain basic information in order to provide for the needs of children placed in his or her care, including the name, mailing address, telephone number, and facsimile number of the child's social worker, the social worker's supervisor, the child's attorney, and the court-appointed special advocate, if applicable."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2767"
citation: "California AB 2767 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster care: caregivers: information."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lopez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f83246e-d172-4299-a511-a80b9cb576b7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767"
source_hash: "3d83b3f47340a01b78fd0cd7d2a7d6c1ce13f7e689f6a38d5b80e5ce5715e1d5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2767 (20152016) — Foster care: caregivers: information.

Existing law states the findings and declarations of the Legislature that a caregiver of a foster child should have certain basic information in order to provide for the needs of children placed in his or her care, including the name, mailing address, telephone number, and facsimile number of the child's social worker, the social worker's supervisor, the child's attorney, and the court-appointed special advocate, if applicable.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276799INT)
2. **03/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276798AMD)
3. **04/12/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276797AMD)
4. **06/16/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276796AMD)
5. **09/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276794CHP)
6. **AB2767** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767)
7. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2767&version=20150AB276795ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2767 LOPEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2767 LOPEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2767 Lopez By Liu — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lopez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-17** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-18** 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`
- **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2016-04-12** 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`
- **2016-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-27** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4683.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5129.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6203.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2016-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f83246e-d172-4299-a511-a80b9cb576b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).