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Bill	Child welfare: adoption.	Existing law provides for the Adoption Assistance Program, to be established and administered by the State Department of Social Services or the county, for the purpose of benefitting children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes. Existing law requires the state to compensate licensed private adoption agencies for the cost of placing for adoption eligible children and nonminor dependents eligible for the program, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1301	California AB 1301 (20192020)	bill	Child welfare: adoption.	enacted	Cooley	8	30	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/e779de68-7d48-4458-810f-65a52db74fbe	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1301	ee87520d6d3020de192ab42c9a14f3e07a26c8761d585730d3af5cde3c27ed54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1301 (20192020) — Child welfare: adoption.

Existing law provides for the Adoption Assistance Program, to be established and administered by the State Department of Social Services or the county, for the purpose of benefitting children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes. Existing law requires the state to compensate licensed private adoption agencies for the cost of placing for adoption eligible children and nonminor dependents eligible for the program, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1301 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1301 Cooley By Hurtado — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1301 Cooley Assembly Third Reading By REYES — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1301 Cooley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Cooley — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 0. Page 2071.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2678.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3283.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 827, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e779de68-7d48-4458-810f-65a52db74fbe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).