republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2020.md

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Bill	Family law.	Existing law provides that a man may bring an action at any time to determine that he is the father of a child having no presumed father. Under existing law, a man who is not a presumed father may bring an action to establish that he is the natural father of a child having a presumed father if the mother has relinquished for, or consents to, the adoption of the child, and requires that he bring this action within 30 days after (1) he is served with notice that he is or could be the father or (2) the birth of the child, whichever is later.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2020	California AB 2020 (20092010)	bill	Family law.	enacted	Fletcher	8	26	5	2010-02-17	2010-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/c6f7f2ab-96c3-4f61-accb-ecbf5a340036	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2020	582aacd7b3ce5a281bbcc807ad0b48d4a9fc63a23573df06d99a3633bc5e2b72	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2020 (20092010) — Family law.

Existing law provides that a man may bring an action at any time to determine that he is the father of a child having no presumed father. Under existing law, a man who is not a presumed father may bring an action to establish that he is the natural father of a child having a presumed father if the mother has relinquished for, or consents to, the adoption of the child, and requires that he bring this action within 30 days after (1) he is served with notice that he is or could be the father or (2) the birth of the child, whichever is later.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/03/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/03/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2020 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/19/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 2020 FLETCHER Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2020 FLETCHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2020 Fletcher By Liu — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fletcher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2010-03-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-03-15 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
• 2010-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-03-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-04-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-06 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-04-15 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4686.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-04-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-04-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-03 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
• 2010-06-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-06-17 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-06-23 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2010-06-28 From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
• 2010-06-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2010-08-03 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-03 (Corrected August 5.)
• 2010-08-04 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-11 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4452.) 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.
• 2010-08-16 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6261.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-26 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2010-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 588, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6f7f2ab-96c3-4f61-accb-ecbf5a340036. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).