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Bill	Foster children: immigration counsel and guardianship.	Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to the availability of funding, to contract with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied, undocumented minors, as defined, who are transferred to the care and custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who are present in this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 829	California AB 829 (20212022)	bill	Foster children: immigration counsel and guardianship.	enacted	Levine	9	32	10	2021-02-17	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/504171e9-8e5a-4a8c-b56c-dffee72d7b55	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB829	8f51b3a60136c8e44b1b1974cafaa30c495146d5dccde646a567cbe853a188fc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 829 (20212022) — Foster children: immigration counsel and guardianship.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to the availability of funding, to contract with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied, undocumented minors, as defined, who are transferred to the care and custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who are present in this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB829 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 829 Levine Assembly Third Reading — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 829 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB829 Levine et al. By Hurtado — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Levine — primary (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. 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
• 2021-04-05 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
• 2021-04-06 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 JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 1650.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 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
• 2021-06-15 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
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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 JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 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
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2493.). 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 73. Noes 0. Page 2994.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 528, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/504171e9-8e5a-4a8c-b56c-dffee72d7b55. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).