CA AB562 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Assembly Bill 562

Status

Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Passed on October 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 436, Statutes of 2025.
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Summary

An act to amend Section 309 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to foster care.

Title

Foster care: placement: family finding.

Roll Calls

2025-09-12 - Assembly - AB 562 Solache Concurrence in Senate Amendments (Y: 80 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-09-11 - Senate - Special Consent AB562 Solache et al. By Smallwood-Cuevas (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-08-29 - Senate - Do pass as amended (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-06-30 - Senate - Placed on suspense file (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-06-16 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar (Y: 5 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2025-05-12 - Assembly - AB 562 Solache Assembly Third Reading (Y: 78 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-04-09 - Assembly - Do pass (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2025-03-25 - Assembly - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-10-07		Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 436, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-07		Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-24		Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-12	Assembly	Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3378.).
2025-09-12	Assembly	In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-11	Senate	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2930.).
2025-09-09	Senate	Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-02	Senate	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29	Senate	Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-08-29	Senate	From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-06-30	Senate	In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-06-17	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-05-21	Senate	Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.
2025-05-13	Senate	In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-12	Assembly	Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1508.)
2025-04-10	Assembly	Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-09	Assembly	From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).
2025-03-26	Assembly	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-03	Assembly	Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2025-02-13	Assembly	From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
2025-02-12	Assembly	Read first time. To print.

Code Citations

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Welfare and Institutions Code	309	Amended Code	Citation Text

California State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562#98AMD
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562#97ENR
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562#96CHP
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB562