---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: County of Santa Clara."
description: "The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the implementation of quality child care programs. Existing law authorizes the County of Alameda, as a pilot project, to develop an individualized county child care subsidy plan, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2368"
citation: "California AB 2368 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: County of Santa Clara."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/086003ab-0581-4601-b1db-da0c45a66c3e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2368"
source_hash: "a8afd00f51b657729ffc4e46d5aa86c28ced1cba7080192c371e481ad707fd0a"
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 2368 (20152016) — Child care and development services: individualized county child care subsidy plan: County of Santa Clara.

The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop standards for the implementation of quality child care programs. Existing law authorizes the County of Alameda, as a pilot project, to develop an individualized county child care subsidy plan, as provided.

## 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=201520160AB2368&version=20150AB236899INT)
2. **04/05/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2368&version=20150AB236898AMD)
3. **09/24/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2368&version=20150AB236896CHP)
4. **AB2368** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2368)
5. **08/24/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2368&version=20150AB236897ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2368 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2368 Gordon By Beall — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gordon — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Hill — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
- Wieckowski — 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.
- **2016-03-08** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5036.) `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 Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5246.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 574, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/086003ab-0581-4601-b1db-da0c45a66c3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).