republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2416.md

---
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).