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type: "Bill"
title: "Foster youth: placement of siblings."
description: "Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process, which replaces the multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to adopt standards pertaining to the home environment and permanency assessments of a resource family according to specified standards, including that the total number of children residing in the home of a resource family be no more than the total number of children the resource family can properly care for, regardless of status, and may not exceed 6 children, except as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 366"
citation: "California AB 366 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster youth: placement of siblings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blanca Rubio"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/17989f6c-05c1-4d6c-869f-6fdb07f19fdb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366"
source_hash: "bd7e4fa6d11181328352e0b1f4bac991761589d8d10d818e66fc36083f389fa7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 366 (20212022) — Foster youth: placement of siblings.
Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process, which replaces the multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families. Existing law defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to adopt standards pertaining to the home environment and permanency assessments of a resource family according to specified standards, including that the total number of children residing in the home of a resource family be no more than the total number of children the resource family can properly care for, regardless of status, and may not exceed 6 children, except as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/01/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36699INT)
2. **03/29/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36698AMD)
3. **05/24/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36697AMD)
4. **06/29/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36696AMD)
5. **07/08/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36695AMD)
6. **08/31/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36694AMD)
7. **09/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36693AMD)
8. **10/06/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36691CHP)
9. **AB366** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366)
10. **09/15/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB366&version=20210AB36692ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **50** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **160** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **70** (pass) · lower
- AB 366 Blanca Rubio Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB366 Blanca Rubio et al. By Rubio — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 366 Blanca Rubio Assembly Third Reading — **790** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Blanca Rubio — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-04-28** 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. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1758.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-12** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2021-07-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-01** 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`
- **2021-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2581.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2021-09-09** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2021-09-10** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3106.)
- **2021-09-10** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 10). `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3128.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2021-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 581, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/17989f6c-05c1-4d6c-869f-6fdb07f19fdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).