republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-408.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Homeless children and youths: reporting."
description: "(1) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. The act requires a state plan submitted for the receipt of the grant to include assurances that local educational agencies will designate an appropriate staff person to act as a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and a description of how the state will ensure that local educational agencies and their liaisons will comply with specified requirements of the act, including the identification of homeless children and youths. Existing federal law, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also allocates funds for states to provide services for homeless children and youth, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 408"
citation: "California AB 408 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Homeless children and youths: reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-03"
last_action: "2022-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22943aa2-c95c-4c8c-b256-7644d1398456"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408"
source_hash: "1727c98d6a8b673974601359461861aa60410fb5b4f131f66603250601692a55"
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 408 (20212022) — Homeless children and youths: reporting.

(1) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. The act requires a state plan submitted for the receipt of the grant to include assurances that local educational agencies will designate an appropriate staff person to act as a local educational agency liaison for homeless children and youths and a description of how the state will ensure that local educational agencies and their liaisons will comply with specified requirements of the act, including the identification of homeless children and youths. Existing federal law, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also allocates funds for states to provide services for homeless children and youth, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408&version=20210AB40899INT)
2. **01/03/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408&version=20210AB40898AMD)
3. **08/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408&version=20210AB40897AMD)
4. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408&version=20210AB40895CHP)
5. **AB408** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408)
6. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB408&version=20210AB40896ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent AB408 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 408 Quirk-Silva Assembly Third Reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 408 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)
- Luz Rivas — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3400.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4974.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 904, 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/22943aa2-c95c-4c8c-b256-7644d1398456`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).