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type: "Bill"
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title: "Foster care supplement."
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description: "Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) , which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) , which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 349"
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citation: "California AB 349 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Fostercaresupplement"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dixon"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-01-29"
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last_action: "2025-10-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9857339-4009-4384-9387-4dda9ed53448"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349"
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source_hash: "ba76f33a86729e251332df6dbf2e37fe3f0f3f4705a6d7990fad49b46630ddd1"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 349 (20252026) — Foster care supplement.
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Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP) , which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) , which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/29/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34999INT)
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2. **05/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34998AMD)
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3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34997AMD)
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4. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34996AMD)
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5. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34994CHP)
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6. **AB349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349)
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7. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB349&version=20250AB34995ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 349 Dixon Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 349 Dixon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Special Consent AB349 Dixon By Wahab — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dixon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
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- **2025-02-18** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-05** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2004.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-14** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2930.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
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- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3496.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 143, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9857339-4009-4384-9387-4dda9ed53448`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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