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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Family daycare homes."
+description: "Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates family daycare homes. Under existing law, a small family daycare home, which may provide care for up to 8 children, is considered a residential use of property for purposes of all local ordinances. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to either classify a large family daycare home, which may provide care for up to 14 children, as residential use of the property or to provide a process for applying for a permit to use the property as a large family daycare home."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "SB 234"
+citation: "California SB 234 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Family daycare homes."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-02-07"
+last_action: "2019-09-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0957754-a4e1-47ff-88d1-ac0032e66cc3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234"
+source_hash: "c3add7c21826fffb6ff5008b5b35e0b15212d52b2d3e89affd029a1908cd0242"
+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 234 (20192020) — Family daycare homes.
+
+Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates family daycare homes. Under existing law, a small family daycare home, which may provide care for up to 8 children, is considered a residential use of property for purposes of all local ordinances. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to either classify a large family daycare home, which may provide care for up to 14 children, as residential use of the property or to provide a process for applying for a permit to use the property as a large family daycare home.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23499INT)
+2. **03/21/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23498AMD)
+3. **04/09/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23497AMD)
+4. **08/12/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23496AMD)
+5. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23494CHP)
+6. **SB234** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234)
+7. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB234&version=20190SB23495ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 234 Skinner Senate Third Reading By BAUER-KAHAN — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB234 Skinner Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Skinner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2019-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
+- **2019-02-21** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Set for hearing March 11.
+- **2019-03-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 332.) (March 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-19** Set for hearing April 2.
+- **2019-03-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-08** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 552.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2019-04-09** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-12** Set for hearing April 22.
+- **2019-04-17** April 22 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2019-04-18** Set for hearing April 29.
+- **2019-04-29** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2019-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 959.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-30** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-12** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-08-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2759.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-08-20** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2019-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2235.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2019-09-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-09-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 244, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0957754-a4e1-47ff-88d1-ac0032e66cc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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