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Bill	Foster care.	(1) Existing law, commonly known as the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) , states the intent of the Legislature to improve California's child welfare system and its outcomes by increasing the use of home-based family care and creating faster paths to permanency resulting in shorter durations of involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, among other things.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 2944	California AB 2944 (20192020)	bill	Foster care.	enacted	Mark Stone	7	23	6	2020-02-21	2020-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/6dcf6d5b-7f14-483d-a5c6-caa12beebbcc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2944	90d61e06bfde74d33f5e64b99f11f546c68f6df1b8260d75ea6a4a307e7968ee	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2944 (20192020) — Foster care.

(1) Existing law, commonly known as the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) , states the intent of the Legislature to improve California's child welfare system and its outcomes by increasing the use of home-based family care and creating faster paths to permanency resulting in shorter durations of involvement in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, among other things.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/21/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/12/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/14/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/18/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2944 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2944 Mark Stone Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2944 Mark Stone Concurrence - Urgency Added — 75–0 (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
• Consent Calendar AB2944 Mark Stone Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2020-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2020-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2020-03-05 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2020-04-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-05-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-06-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-06-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-06-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4729.) 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
• 2020-07-21 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
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4379.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5328.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 104, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6dcf6d5b-7f14-483d-a5c6-caa12beebbcc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).