--- type: "Bill" title: "Parent and child relationship." description: "(1) The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under certain circumstances. The Uniform Act on Blood Tests to Determine Paternity provides the procedures for the use of genetic testing, as defined, to determine paternity." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 2684" citation: "California AB 2684 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Parent and child relationship."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"] version_count: 8 action_count: 28 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2018-02-15" last_action: "2018-09-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e45662e-35d8-4f97-a55d-dd656be02a8b" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684" source_hash: "08af8f575fddac8212e101a0dfc94607414423a97009b271636a442537b76db2" 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 2684 (20172018) — Parent and child relationship. (1) The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under certain circumstances. The Uniform Act on Blood Tests to Determine Paternity provides the procedures for the use of genetic testing, as defined, to determine paternity. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268499INT) 2. **04/04/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268498AMD) 3. **04/11/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268497AMD) 4. **06/18/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268496AMD) 5. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268495AMD) 6. **09/28/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268493CHP) 7. **AB2684** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684) 8. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684&version=20170AB268494ENR) ## Votes - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper - AB 2684 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB2684 Bloom et al. By Wieckowski — **35–2** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower - AB 2684 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **73–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Bloom — primary (person) - Chiu — coauthor (person) - Wieckowski — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. - **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2018-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2018-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction` - **2018-04-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2` - **2018-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2018-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2018-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-05-03** From Consent Calendar. - **2018-05-03** Ordered to third reading. - **2018-05-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5123.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2018-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2018-05-24** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee` - **2018-06-18** 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` - **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2018-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5994.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 7032.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2018-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m. - **2018-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2018-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 876, Statutes of 2018. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e45662e-35d8-4f97-a55d-dd656be02a8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).