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Bill	Public social services.	Existing law authorizes, in certain circumstances, a child who has been removed from their parent or guardian to be placed with a relative or nonrelative extended family member if the relative or nonrelative extended family member is either an approved resource family or has been assessed by a county social worker or a county probation agency and, among other things, the relative or nonrelative extended family member has not been convicted of a crime for which a criminal record exemption cannot be granted, has been granted a criminal record exemption, or, in certain circumstances, a criminal record exemption is pending.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 354	California SB 354 (20212022)	bill	Public social services.	enacted	Skinner	10	40	10	2021-02-09	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bf18d127-db98-4724-a650-fa5b2ec6e2aa	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB354	5a2fc4082b6f522238d3b35a9823ff5811387810c8b3626e4b0b51619d0ed5c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 354 (20212022) — Public social services.

Existing law authorizes, in certain circumstances, a child who has been removed from their parent or guardian to be placed with a relative or nonrelative extended family member if the relative or nonrelative extended family member is either an approved resource family or has been assessed by a county social worker or a county probation agency and, among other things, the relative or nonrelative extended family member has not been convicted of a crime for which a criminal record exemption cannot be granted, has been granted a criminal record exemption, or, in certain circumstances, a criminal record exemption is pending.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB354 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 354 Skinner Senate Third Reading By Blanca Rubio — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB354 Skinner et al. Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2021-02-17 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-09 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2021-03-23 March 23 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 935.) (April 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1188.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1281.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-08 June 16 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 August 26 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3108.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2624.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 687, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf18d127-db98-4724-a650-fa5b2ec6e2aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).