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Bill	Minors: temporary custody.	Existing law authorizes a peace officer to take into temporary custody, without a warrant, a minor who is in a hospital if the release of the minor to a prospective adoptive parent poses an immediate danger to the minor's health or safety. However, existing law prohibits a peace officer from taking into custody, without a warrant, a newborn child who is in a hospital, who tested positive for illegal drugs or whose birth mother tested positive for illegal drugs, who is the subject of an adoption petition, and whose release to the prospective adoptive parents does not pose an immediate danger to him or her.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 973	California AB 973 (20092010)	bill	Minors: temporary custody.	enacted	Audra Strickland	9	32	6	2009-02-26	2010-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/00e00848-73ff-4e47-9c5e-2c1158abeb27	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB973	6b0b630889daae2c637a9c03b74dfb9ee90e04b42bfad69820e76119dc4fca69	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 973 (20092010) — Minors: temporary custody.

Existing law authorizes a peace officer to take into temporary custody, without a warrant, a minor who is in a hospital if the release of the minor to a prospective adoptive parent poses an immediate danger to the minor's health or safety. However, existing law prohibits a peace officer from taking into custody, without a warrant, a newborn child who is in a hospital, who tested positive for illegal drugs or whose birth mother tested positive for illegal drugs, who is the subject of an adoption petition, and whose release to the prospective adoptive parents does not pose an immediate danger to him or her.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/07/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 01/25/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 01/27/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/03/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/29/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB973 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 973 STRICKLAND Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 973 STRICKLAND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB973 Audra Strickland By Liu — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Audra Strickland — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-26 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-01-04 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
• 2010-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-01-07 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
• 2010-01-11 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-01-12 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-01-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2010-01-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-01-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-26 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-01-27 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-27 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3904.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2010-02-11 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2010-06-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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
• 2010-08-04 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-18 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4600.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-19 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6373.)
• 2010-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6378.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-26 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
• 2010-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 440, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00e00848-73ff-4e47-9c5e-2c1158abeb27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).