---
type: "Bill"
title: "Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers."
description: "The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, governs proceedings to establish that relationship, and establishes the jurisdiction of the courts under the act. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in that assisted reproduction agreement. Existing law allows an action to establish the parent-child relationship between the intended parent or parents and the child as to a child conceived pursuant to an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to be filed before the child's birth and specifies the counties where that action may be filed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2349"
citation: "California AB 2349 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiu"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5d74256-fdf9-43a5-8963-ac79d424d554"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349"
source_hash: "2ea8ada23d06bed7ff952db29e3876b48de6feba162f85183935da3c96bc04ec"
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 2349 (20152016) — Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers.

The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, governs proceedings to establish that relationship, and establishes the jurisdiction of the courts under the act. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in that assisted reproduction agreement. Existing law allows an action to establish the parent-child relationship between the intended parent or parents and the child as to a child conceived pursuant to an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to be filed before the child's birth and specifies the counties where that action may be filed.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234999INT)
2. **03/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234998AMD)
3. **03/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234997AMD)
4. **05/23/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234996AMD)
5. **08/10/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234995AMD)
6. **09/16/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234993CHP)
7. **AB2349** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349)
8. **08/23/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349&version=20150AB234994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2349 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2349 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2349 Chiu By Leno — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chiu — primary (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Gordon — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-03-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4887.) `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5007.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4981.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6044.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 385, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5d74256-fdf9-43a5-8963-ac79d424d554`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).