republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-896.md

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Bill	Foster care: placement transition planning.	Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires, prior to making a change in the placement of a dependent child, a social worker or probation officer to develop and implement a placement preservation strategy to preserve the dependent child's placement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 896	California AB 896 (20252026)	bill	Fostercare placementtransitionplanning	enacted	Elhawary	6	23	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/ca6199ff-91af-4545-8eef-e8688ad91b8b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB896	ac65fc88e19869f22ecc829e7f1c12fbee3b22c12bc3df03a4389561dee207be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 896 (20252026) — Foster care: placement transition planning.

Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires, prior to making a change in the placement of a dependent child, a social worker or probation officer to develop and implement a placement preservation strategy to preserve the dependent child's placement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB896 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB896 Elhawary et al. By Ashby — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 896 Elhawary Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 896 Elhawary Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Elhawary — primary (person)
• Rivas — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-17 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1569.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 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 2931.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3381.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 564, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca6199ff-91af-4545-8eef-e8688ad91b8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).