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Bill	Tribal customary adoption.	Existing law provides for tribal customary adoption as one placement option for Indian children. Existing law requires that, in all cases prior to final approval of the tribal customary adoptive placement, a state and federal criminal background check through the Department of Justice shall be conducted on the prospective tribal customary adoptive parents and on persons over 18 years of age residing in their household. Existing law provides that if the tribe chooses a designee to conduct the home study, the designee shall perform that background check. Existing law requires a tribal designee to be an entity that is authorized to request that information from the Department of Justice. If the tribe chooses to conduct its own home study, the agency that has the placement and care responsibility of the child shall perform the state and federal criminal background check.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2417	California AB 2417 (20092010)	bill	Tribal customary adoption.	enacted	Cook	6	22	5	2010-02-19	2010-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/caf3e1fe-760c-4c98-aa23-fd0180044d14	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2417	126b5c5c6e55eb22650c5eacf5585e4bd6e092b39dbeb4fb9207ccd51d010614	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2417 (20092010) — Tribal customary adoption.

Existing law provides for tribal customary adoption as one placement option for Indian children. Existing law requires that, in all cases prior to final approval of the tribal customary adoptive placement, a state and federal criminal background check through the Department of Justice shall be conducted on the prospective tribal customary adoptive parents and on persons over 18 years of age residing in their household. Existing law provides that if the tribe chooses a designee to conduct the home study, the designee shall perform that background check. Existing law requires a tribal designee to be an entity that is authorized to request that information from the Department of Justice. If the tribe chooses to conduct its own home study, the agency that has the placement and care responsibility of the child shall perform the state and federal criminal background check.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/02/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/04/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/29/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2417 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2417 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2417 COOK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB2417 Cook By Emmerson — pass (pass) · upper

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
• 2010-04-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-05 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-10 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5087.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-05-20 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2010-06-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-04 From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
• 2010-08-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-06 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-11 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4461.) 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 6145.)
• 2010-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6145.) 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 467, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/caf3e1fe-760c-4c98-aa23-fd0180044d14. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).