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Bill	Foster youth: housing.	Existing law requires county agencies that place children in foster care to conduct an evaluation of the county's placement resources and programs in relation to the needs of children placed in out-of-home care, and requires county placement agencies to specifically examine placements that are out of county and determine the reason the placement was necessary.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1979	California AB 1979 (20192020)	bill	Foster youth: housing.	enacted	Friedman	8	26	8	2020-01-23	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/e3aadb99-78d2-4b0d-b91b-83d4903696af	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1979	7f06abd28015e635c7709722456297bf4d1e82f7ed87f376d71c9c9e86dbb3eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1979 (20192020) — Foster youth: housing.

Existing law requires county agencies that place children in foster care to conduct an evaluation of the county's placement resources and programs in relation to the needs of children placed in out-of-home care, and requires county placement agencies to specifically examine placements that are out of county and determine the reason the placement was necessary.

Version chain

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

1. 01/23/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/04/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/28/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1979 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB1979 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1979 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1979 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-01-24 From printer. May be heard in committee February 23.
• 2020-02-06 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2020-03-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-06-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-06-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 4700.)
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4706.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-06-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2020-07-07 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
• 2020-07-28 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
• 2020-08-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4384.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5313.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 141, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3aadb99-78d2-4b0d-b91b-83d4903696af. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).