---
type: "Bill"
title: "Appeals: child custody orders or judgments."
description: "Existing law specifies that an appeal, other than in a limited civil case, is to the court of appeal. Existing law authorizes an appeal to be taken from certain judicial actions including a judgment, an order granting or dissolving an injunction, or an order appointing a receiver."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 369"
citation: "California AB 369 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appeals: child custody orders or judgments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-09"
last_action: "2017-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f25cdb0-475c-45c5-86ea-a060c578f867"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369"
source_hash: "56c25aa3742c80d13a06202768bf20f17135777e60fafde9daf4175dd1f56ee6"
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 369 (20172018) — Appeals: child custody orders or judgments.

Existing law specifies that an appeal, other than in a limited civil case, is to the court of appeal. Existing law authorizes an appeal to be taken from certain judicial actions including a judgment, an order granting or dissolving an injunction, or an order appointing a receiver.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/09/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369&version=20170AB36999INT)
2. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369&version=20170AB36998AMD)
3. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369&version=20170AB36996CHP)
4. **AB369** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369)
5. **06/27/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB369&version=20170AB36997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB369 — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 369 WALDRON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 369 WALDRON Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 647.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1611.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2343.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 41, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f25cdb0-475c-45c5-86ea-a060c578f867`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).