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Bill	Child custody: preferences of child.	Existing law requires the family court, if a child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody, to consider and give due weight to the wishes of the child in making an order granting or modifying custody.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1050	California AB 1050 (20092010)	bill	Child custody: preferences of child.	enacted	Ma	8	24	5	2009-02-27	2010-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/50d7613b-2caa-4f99-a6a5-591958a11c69	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1050	ad66333c6b23b0344852043a5dbde9ce9b4d8d8c7102ec2c9c66902e43f7b285	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1050 (20092010) — Child custody: preferences of child.

Existing law requires the family court, if a child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody, to consider and give due weight to the wishes of the child in making an order granting or modifying custody.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/02/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1050 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/12/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 1050 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1050 MA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1050 Ma — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-03-26 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
• 2009-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-16 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
• 2009-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-06 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1369.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-21 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-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-06-30 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. committee-passage
• 2010-08-03 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4373.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6098.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-16 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
• 2010-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 187, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50d7613b-2caa-4f99-a6a5-591958a11c69. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).