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Bill	Homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths: reporting.	(1) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. The act requires a state plan submitted for the receipt of the grant to include assurances that local educational agencies will designate an appropriate staff person to act as a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and a description of how the state will ensure that local educational agencies and their liaisons will comply with specified requirements of the act, including the identification of homeless children and youths.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 27	California AB 27 (20212022)	bill	Homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths: reporting.	enacted	Luz Rivas	11	29	8	2020-12-07	2021-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/913607dd-5010-461c-8fa6-e1a0af309238	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB27	f8aaaacb8ff6d201349bdda9f4d6bf73c45a667720921e7233b6ef79a2e71afa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 27 (20212022) — Homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths: reporting.

(1) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. The act requires a state plan submitted for the receipt of the grant to include assurances that local educational agencies will designate an appropriate staff person to act as a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and a description of how the state will ensure that local educational agencies and their liaisons will comply with specified requirements of the act, including the identification of homeless children and youths.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/29/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB27 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 27 Luz Rivas Third Reading Urgency — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB27 Luz Rivas et al. By Skinner Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 27 Luz Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended 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
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Luz Rivas — primary (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — author (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — principal coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — author (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
• 2021-01-11 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1708.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1896.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-12 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 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2531.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2967.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 394, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/913607dd-5010-461c-8fa6-e1a0af309238. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).