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Bill	Foster youth: case plan: placement changes.	Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, existing law requires, in pertinent part, a child to be placed in one of several specified placements. Existing law sets forth the rights of a minor in foster care, including, among other rights, the right to be involved in the development of and to review his or her own case plan and plan for permanent placement, and, if he or she is 12 years of age or older and in a permanent placement, the right to receive information about his or her out-of-home placement and case plan, including the right to be told of changes to the plan.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2247	California AB 2247 (20172018)	bill	Foster youth: case plan: placement changes.	enacted	Gipson	9	26	8	2018-02-13	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/5ca2246a-d18b-4d05-8178-c63c9cf667e7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2247	55398bce899d6807bfd72b4509a348124379f9b67bf721393442a3474d109328	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2247 (20172018) — Foster youth: case plan: placement changes.

Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, existing law requires, in pertinent part, a child to be placed in one of several specified placements. Existing law sets forth the rights of a minor in foster care, including, among other rights, the right to be involved in the development of and to review his or her own case plan and plan for permanent placement, and, if he or she is 12 years of age or older and in a permanent placement, the right to receive information about his or her out-of-home placement and case plan, including the right to be told of changes to the plan.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2247 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2247 GIPSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2247 GIPSON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2247 Gipson et al. By Stone — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Cooley — principal coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-02 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5636.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5655.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 6646.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 674, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ca2246a-d18b-4d05-8178-c63c9cf667e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).