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Bill	Child welfare services: domestic violence consultant pilot program.	Existing law requires the state, through the State Department of Social Services and county welfare departments, to establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 779	California AB 779 (20252026)	bill	Childwelfareservices domesticviolenceconsultantpilotprogram	enacted	Lackey	7	24	6	2025-02-18	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e3380107-c87d-4be2-9863-23cc44656944	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB779	c10df3d60a4fb593a7ade8ec898b1d253062b1558d39c749e5110c5711935560	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 779 (20252026) — Child welfare services: domestic violence consultant pilot program.

Existing law requires the state, through the State Department of Social Services and county welfare departments, to establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB779 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 779 Lackey Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 779 Lackey Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB779 Lackey et al. By Valladares — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lackey — primary (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-12 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
• 2025-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1652.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-04 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 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
• 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 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2501.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3395.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 381, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3380107-c87d-4be2-9863-23cc44656944. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).