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Bill	Educational services: pupils in foster care.	(1) Existing law requires 6 specified foster children services program sites to receive a certain allowance that is required to be used exclusively for foster children services. Existing law authorizes any county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, in addition to the 6 specified program sites, to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for grant funding, to the extent the funds are available, to operate an education-based foster youth services program to provide educational and support services for foster children who reside in a licensed foster home or county-operated juvenile detention facility, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 854	California AB 854 (20152016)	bill	Educational services: pupils in foster care.	enacted	Weber	10	28	8	2015-02-26	2015-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/2bbdeed8-fce3-472c-b5ed-6eb7f3b72f40	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB854	ac92495c8660ef75808ddba989d10b6be7fa564aa49887fc2240e44e7d8a6fd5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 854 (20152016) — Educational services: pupils in foster care.

(1) Existing law requires 6 specified foster children services program sites to receive a certain allowance that is required to be used exclusively for foster children services. Existing law authorizes any county office of education, or consortium of county offices of education, in addition to the 6 specified program sites, to apply to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for grant funding, to the extent the funds are available, to operate an education-based foster youth services program to provide educational and support services for foster children who reside in a licensed foster home or county-operated juvenile detention facility, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/09/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/11/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB854 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/15/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 854 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB854 Weber By Mitchell Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 854 WEBER Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 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
• 2015-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-20 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 79. Noes 0. Page 1756.) 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
• 2015-06-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-09 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
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2611.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 854.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 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 781, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2bbdeed8-fce3-472c-b5ed-6eb7f3b72f40. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).