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Bill	Foster youth: homeless children or youth: complaint of noncompliance: exemption from local graduation requirements.	(1) Existing law requires certain pupils placed in a licensed children's institution or foster family home to attend programs operated by the local educational agency unless a specified condition applies. Existing law authorizes certain foster children living in emergency shelters to receive educational services at the emergency shelter as necessary for short periods of time for specified reasons. Existing law requires that all educational and school placement decisions be based on the best interests of the child.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 379	California AB 379 (20152016)	bill	Foster youth: homeless children or youth: complaint of noncompliance: exemption from local graduation requirements.	enacted	Gordon	9	28	8	2015-02-18	2015-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/5cca77bc-b2f1-485c-964e-c56cbc22823d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB379	ac270826f2888c95db006c257d3c6ab5fa590854915e22213ca2ac59367abfcb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 379 (20152016) — Foster youth: homeless children or youth: complaint of noncompliance: exemption from local graduation requirements.

(1) Existing law requires certain pupils placed in a licensed children's institution or foster family home to attend programs operated by the local educational agency unless a specified condition applies. Existing law authorizes certain foster children living in emergency shelters to receive educational services at the emergency shelter as necessary for short periods of time for specified reasons. Existing law requires that all educational and school placement decisions be based on the best interests of the child.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/17/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB379 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 379 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 379 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB379 Gordon By Mitchell — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 25). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-07 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1801.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2693.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3139.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 772, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5cca77bc-b2f1-485c-964e-c56cbc22823d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).