republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-404.md

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Bill	Foster care.	Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of his or her parents or guardian, and establishes procedures to determine placement of a dependent child.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 404	California AB 404 (20172018)	bill	Foster care.	enacted	Mark Stone	12	35	3	2017-02-09	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/37d05e97-8a79-4917-802b-00946eeb800d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB404	a596523dbcfcd4ce0625dc519c52c85b06c89758343e8e7d5de8b09392b39a6c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 404 (20172018) — Foster care.

Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of his or her parents or guardian, and establishes procedures to determine placement of a dependent child.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/06/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/16/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB404 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 404 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB404 Mark Stone By Wiener — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2017-02-21 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-07 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1117.)
• 2017-04-20 (pending re-refer to Com. on JUD.)
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1856.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2850.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3496.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 732, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/37d05e97-8a79-4917-802b-00946eeb800d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).