republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1914.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Resource family approval: training."
description: "Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process and defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Under existing law, counties, as part of the resource family approval process, are responsible for ensuring that resource family applicants complete a minimum of 12 hours of preapproval caregiver training and that resource families complete a minimum of 8 hours of annual caregiver training. Existing written directives also require counties to ensure that resource family parents submit copies of certificates verifying completion of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid training no later than 90 days following resource family approval, and to verify that resource family parents maintain current certificates of CPR and first aid training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1914"
citation: "California AB 1914 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Resource family approval: training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davies"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-02-09"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f06f631-2165-43db-9300-0b493926b1cf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914"
source_hash: "ec3289c6031e0c2032d5c0f44761ef2044c8eab7ed9be940f7debc722ba088f8"
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 AB 1914 (20212022) — Resource family approval: training.

Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process and defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Under existing law, counties, as part of the resource family approval process, are responsible for ensuring that resource family applicants complete a minimum of 12 hours of preapproval caregiver training and that resource families complete a minimum of 8 hours of annual caregiver training. Existing written directives also require counties to ensure that resource family parents submit copies of certificates verifying completion of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid training no later than 90 days following resource family approval, and to verify that resource family parents maintain current certificates of CPR and first aid training.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914&version=20210AB191499INT)
2. **06/06/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914&version=20210AB191498AMD)
3. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914&version=20210AB191496CHP)
4. **AB1914** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914)
5. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1914&version=20210AB191497ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1914 Davies Concurrence in Senate Amendments By FLORA — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1914 Davies By Bates — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1914 Davies Consent Calendar Second Day — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davies — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2022-02-18** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4113.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-03-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4902.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6080.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 765, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f06f631-2165-43db-9300-0b493926b1cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).