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type: "Bill"
title: "Public social services: foster care placement: funding."
description: "Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate various out-of-home facilities and entities responsible for children and nonminor dependents in foster care, including foster family homes, group homes, and out-of-state group homes, and imposes training requirements on foster parents. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 403"
citation: "California AB 403 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public social services: foster care placement: funding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-19"
last_action: "2015-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42a1a0ea-e5e9-4b22-91c4-5e4c07da2128"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403"
source_hash: "48373d5b614a650903f233519a71726aa9900666228f3ebd1308e973699172db"
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 403 (20152016) — Public social services: foster care placement: funding.
Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate various out-of-home facilities and entities responsible for children and nonminor dependents in foster care, including foster family homes, group homes, and out-of-state group homes, and imposes training requirements on foster parents. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40399INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40398AMD)
3. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40397AMD)
4. **06/01/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40396AMD)
5. **07/07/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40395AMD)
6. **07/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40394AMD)
7. **09/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40393AMD)
8. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40392AMD)
9. **10/11/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40390CHP)
10. **AB403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403)
11. **09/16/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB403&version=20150AB40391ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **170** (pass) · lower
- AB 403 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 403 STONE Assembly Third Reading — **790** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB403 Mark Stone By McGuire — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **60** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mark Stone — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Berryhill — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2015-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** 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`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** 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`
- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-28** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1613.)
- **2015-06-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1887.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-18** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-07** 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`
- **2015-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, 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 2700.). `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 3132.). `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 773, Statutes of 2015.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42a1a0ea-e5e9-4b22-91c4-5e4c07da2128`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).