republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-1460.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child welfare."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to, authorize a county welfare department to undertake comprehensive recruitment programs to ensure an adequate number of foster homes are available. Existing law regulates adoption services by the department, county adoption agencies, licensed adoption agencies, and other adoption service providers, and requires the department to adopt regulations pertaining to those services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1460"
citation: "California SB 1460 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child welfare."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Human Services"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2014-02-25"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d90c6431-47fe-41b3-88a5-05270248c14c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460"
source_hash: "e707076efc5cc6310e624e8f57b1fdd20ba9a11580ad4cee73078db3da52cb90"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1460 (20132014) — Child welfare.

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to, authorize a county welfare department to undertake comprehensive recruitment programs to ensure an adequate number of foster homes are available. Existing law regulates adoption services by the department, county adoption agencies, licensed adoption agencies, and other adoption service providers, and requires the department to adopt regulations pertaining to those services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460&version=20130SB146099INT)
2. **08/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460&version=20130SB146098AMD)
3. **08/22/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460&version=20130SB146097AMD)
4. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460&version=20130SB146095CHP)
5. **SB1460** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460)
6. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1460&version=20130SB146096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB1460 Committee on HUMAN S. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1460 Committee on HUMAN S. (Beall) Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1460 HUMAN. S. Senate Third Reading By STONE — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Human Services — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-25** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-02-25** (Corrected May 28.)
- **2014-02-26** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28.
- **2014-03-17** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-25** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2014-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3214.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-25** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2014-05-05** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3717.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3687.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-29** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-09** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2014-08-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-22** Read third time and amended. (Page 6340.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6452.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4913.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d90c6431-47fe-41b3-88a5-05270248c14c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).