--- type: "Bill" title: "Child custody: parent on active military duty." description: "Existing law provides that a party's absence, relocation, or failure to comply with custody and visitation orders is not, by itself, sufficient to justify a modification of a custody or visitation order if the reason for the absence, relocation, or failure is the party's activation to military service and deployment out of state." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20092010" identifier: "AB 2416" citation: "California AB 2416 (20092010)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Child custody: parent on active military duty."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Cook"] version_count: 7 action_count: 25 vote_count: 5 first_action: "2010-02-19" last_action: "2010-09-29" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38917c94-6e3b-4c4e-a6d0-265d6484e92c" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416" source_hash: "ec5b8e735912e037f6b3a2e4ac7c0dc0df1f749f72e37b2ff2c7d9841c806dcc" 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 2416 (20092010) — Child custody: parent on active military duty. Existing law provides that a party's absence, relocation, or failure to comply with custody and visitation orders is not, by itself, sufficient to justify a modification of a custody or visitation order if the reason for the absence, relocation, or failure is the party's activation to military service and deployment out of state. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241699INT) 2. **03/23/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241698AMD) 3. **06/16/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241697AMD) 4. **07/15/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241696AMD) 5. **09/29/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241694CHP) 6. **AB2416** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416) 7. **08/16/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2416&version=20090AB241695ENR) ## Votes - AB 2416 COOK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper - Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower - Assembly 3rd Reading AB2416 Cook By Ducheny — **pass** (pass) · upper - AB 2416 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Cook — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2010-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction` - **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23. - **2010-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1` - **2010-03-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2010-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2010-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2010-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2010-04-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2010-04-12** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4598.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2010-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2010-04-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2010-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2010-06-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2010-06-23** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar. - **2010-06-24** From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2. - **2010-06-24** Ordered to third reading. - **2010-07-15** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1` - **2010-08-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2010-08-11** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4459.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2010-08-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2010-08-12** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6144.) - **2010-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6144.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2010-08-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m. - **2010-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2010-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 466, Statutes of 2010. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38917c94-6e3b-4c4e-a6d0-265d6484e92c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).