republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-349.md

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Bill	Foster care supplement.	Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) , which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) , which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 349	California AB 349 (20252026)	bill	Fostercaresupplement	enacted	Dixon	7	27	8	2025-01-29	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/b9857339-4009-4384-9387-4dda9ed53448	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349	ba76f33a86729e251332df6dbf2e37fe3f0f3f4705a6d7990fad49b46630ddd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 349 (20252026) — Foster care supplement.

Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) , which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) , which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB349 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 349 Dixon Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 349 Dixon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB349 Dixon By Wahab — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dixon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-29 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-30 From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
• 2025-02-18 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-05 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2004.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-14 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2930.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-13 Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
• 2025-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3496.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9857339-4009-4384-9387-4dda9ed53448. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).