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Bill	Foster care: rights.	Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents, and imposes various requirements on the county child welfare agency in regard to arranging and overseeing the foster care placement. Existing law provides that it is the policy of the state that all minors and nonminors in foster care have specified rights, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, the right to be placed in out-of-home care according to their gender identity, regardless of the gender or sex listed in their court or child welfare records, the right to review their own case plan and plan for permanent placement if the child is 12 years of age or older and in a permanent placement, and the right to attend Independent Living Program classes and activities if the child meets applicable age requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 175	California AB 175 (20192020)	bill	Foster care: rights.	enacted	Gipson	9	28	10	2019-01-08	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/631336fa-ea79-468b-876f-3252415989dd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB175	bedcb059491167da5f45947279aeaf36e0ae8fd5f83b89723beba784300f3854	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 175 (20192020) — Foster care: rights.

Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents, and imposes various requirements on the county child welfare agency in regard to arranging and overseeing the foster care placement. Existing law provides that it is the policy of the state that all minors and nonminors in foster care have specified rights, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, the right to be placed in out-of-home care according to their gender identity, regardless of the gender or sex listed in their court or child welfare records, the right to review their own case plan and plan for permanent placement if the child is 12 years of age or older and in a permanent placement, and the right to attend Independent Living Program classes and activities if the child meets applicable age requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 01/08/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/04/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/03/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB175 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 175 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 59–8 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB175 Gipson et al. By Wiener — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 175 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–10 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-09 From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 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
• 2019-02-05 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2019-02-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (February 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-03-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (March 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 8. Page 1787.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-03 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
• 2019-06-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2518.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 10. Page 3119.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 416, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/631336fa-ea79-468b-876f-3252415989dd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).