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Bill	Intersession programs: foster children and homeless youth: priority access.	Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all pupils in foster care and those who are homeless, as defined, have a meaningful opportunity to meet the challenging state pupil academic achievement standards to which all pupils are held. Existing law requires educators, county placing agencies, care providers, advocates, and the juvenile courts to work together to maintain stable school placements and to ensure that each pupil is placed in the least restrictive educational programs, and has access to the academic resources, services, and extracurricular and enrichment activities that are available to all pupils, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 373	California AB 373 (20232024)	bill	Intersession programs foster children and homeless youth priority access	enacted	Gipson	8	23	7	2023-02-01	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/9073a759-9541-4c00-a1a2-d9a4059bff13	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB373	91dad2755c2c71f5ed39034dcfcab1ff9a9a18e75f099441e6a3ac4a5c48fb76	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 373 (20232024) — Intersession programs: foster children and homeless youth: priority access.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all pupils in foster care and those who are homeless, as defined, have a meaningful opportunity to meet the challenging state pupil academic achievement standards to which all pupils are held. Existing law requires educators, county placing agencies, care providers, advocates, and the juvenile courts to work together to maintain stable school placements and to ensure that each pupil is placed in the least restrictive educational programs, and has access to the academic resources, services, and extracurricular and enrichment activities that are available to all pupils, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/22/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB373 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 373 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 373 Gipson Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB373 Gipson et al. By Wahab — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-01 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-02 From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
• 2023-02-09 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-04 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1461.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2023-05-22 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
• 2023-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-07-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2643.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3380.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 327, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9073a759-9541-4c00-a1a2-d9a4059bff13. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).