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type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile proceedings: costs."
description: "Existing law provides for the appointment of counsel to represent a parent or guardian of a child, or the child, in juvenile court proceedings if the parent or guardian is unable to afford counsel. Existing law also provides that the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of the minor shall be liable to the county for those costs, except as specified, and, more generally, for specified other costs, including the reasonable costs of support of the minor while the minor is placed in, detained in, or committed to, any institution pursuant to an order of the juvenile court or pursuant to the authority of a peace officer to take a minor into temporary custody."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 131"
citation: "California AB 131 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juvenile proceedings: costs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-01-20"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e31f31b4-abb4-43d6-a7f8-d4f1024af2c0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131"
source_hash: "21b63e74ffc5bafbe756f8e8a751e9701f0d0438b969f48ebb1cf7b58fbed74c"
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 131 (20092010) — Juvenile proceedings: costs.
Existing law provides for the appointment of counsel to represent a parent or guardian of a child, or the child, in juvenile court proceedings if the parent or guardian is unable to afford counsel. Existing law also provides that the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of the minor shall be liable to the county for those costs, except as specified, and, more generally, for specified other costs, including the reasonable costs of support of the minor while the minor is placed in, detained in, or committed to, any institution pursuant to an order of the juvenile court or pursuant to the authority of a peace officer to take a minor into temporary custody.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/20/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13199INT)
2. **03/11/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13198AMD)
3. **03/24/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13197AMD)
4. **06/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13196AMD)
5. **07/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13195AMD)
6. **09/01/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13194AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13192CHP)
8. **AB131** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131)
9. **09/11/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB131&version=20090AB13193ENR)
## Votes
- AB 131 EVANS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB131 Evans By Corbett — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 131 EVANS Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Evans — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-01-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2009-02-26** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-11** 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`
- **2009-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 17). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-03-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 5. Page 1869.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-15** 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`
- **2009-06-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-07-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-15** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 2165.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-09** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3152.)
- **2009-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 68. Noes 9. Page 3183.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 413, Statutes of 2009.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e31f31b4-abb4-43d6-a7f8-d4f1024af2c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).