Existing law provides various placement options for a child who has been removed from his or her home, including placement in a resource family home. Existing law defines a resource family to mean an individual or family that has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and specified permanency assessment criteria necessary for providing care for a related or unrelated child who is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, or otherwise in the care of a county child welfare agency or probation department. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement a specified resource family approval process in all counties. Existing law makes the counties responsible for, among other things, implementing the requirements for resource family approval, requiring resource families to complete a minimum of 8 hours of caregiver training annually, and updating resource family approval annually and as necessary to address any changes that have occurred in the resource family's circumstances. Existing law authorizes a county to require a resource family or applicant to receive relevant specialized training for the purpose of preparing the resource family to meet the needs of a particular child in care.
California AB 507 (20172018) — Resource families: training topics.
Existing law provides various placement options for a child who has been removed from his or her home, including placement in a resource family home. Existing law defines a resource family to mean an individual or family that has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and specified permanency assessment criteria necessary for providing care for a related or unrelated child who is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, or otherwise in the care of a county child welfare agency or probation department. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement a specified resource family approval process in all counties. Existing law makes the counties responsible for, among other things, implementing the requirements for resource family approval, requiring resource families to complete a minimum of 8 hours of caregiver training annually, and updating resource family approval annually and as necessary to address any changes that have occurred in the resource family's circumstances. Existing law authorizes a county to require a resource family or applicant to receive relevant specialized training for the purpose of preparing the resource family to meet the needs of a particular child in care.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 507 RUBIO Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent Calendar # AB507 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 507 Rubio Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Rubio — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
2017-03-15 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
2017-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1930.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
2017-07-13 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
2017-07-17 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: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
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
2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2909.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2017-09-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3423.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 705, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/950522b8-f05e-4909-8c06-80dfc58c3877. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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