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type: "Bill"
title: "Foster care: resource families."
description: "(1) Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. 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, the resource family permanency standards include a family evaluation, including, but not limited to, interviews of an applicant, as specified, and a risk assessment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 407"
citation: "California SB 407 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foster care", "resource families"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wiener"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4465267e-46fc-4d7c-bcb1-cdd56851cbfd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407"
source_hash: "0eeba8e1cafd838a61a339e30e0e4b2a47e48dfeb2ed52aa612c688729486669"
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 407 (20232024) — Foster care: resource families.
(1) Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. 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, the resource family permanency standards include a family evaluation, including, but not limited to, interviews of an applicant, as specified, and a risk assessment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40799INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40798AMD)
3. **04/27/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40797AMD)
4. **09/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40796AMD)
5. **09/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40795AMD)
6. **09/23/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40793CHP)
7. **SB407** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407)
8. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB407&version=20230SB40794ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **62** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB407 Wiener et al. Concurrence — **328** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **30** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **114** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- SB 407 Wiener Senate Third Reading By Ward — **6114** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB407 Wiener et al. — **315** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **82** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wiener — primary (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
- **2023-02-22** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-29** Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2023-04-12** Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt.
- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 748.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 893.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2023-05-08** May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2023-05-12** Set for hearing May 18.
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1169.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 1254.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-01** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-16** August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-07** Assembly Rule 69 suspended.
- **2023-09-07** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 3429.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 2842.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 226, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4465267e-46fc-4d7c-bcb1-cdd56851cbfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).