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Bill	Surrogacy agreements.	The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and governs proceedings to establish that relationship. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the Uniform Parentage Act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in the agreement. Existing law also regulates the practice of surrogacy facilitators in assisted reproduction agreements, including surrogacy agreements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1217	California AB 1217 (20112012)	bill	Surrogacy agreements.	enacted	Fuentes	13	34	5	2011-02-18	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/cd708955-034a-4d8b-99b7-224ac23d5d75	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1217	c0f4b8ec2fc587ea9fd7612927e86d0319e3495c01f235b4a0c2e42353da5a2a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1217 (20112012) — Surrogacy agreements.

The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and governs proceedings to establish that relationship. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the Uniform Parentage Act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in the agreement. Existing law also regulates the practice of surrogacy facilitators in assisted reproduction agreements, including surrogacy agreements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/14/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/09/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/11/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/20/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB1217 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/10/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1217 FUENTES Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1217 FUENTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1217 Fuentes By Leno — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fuentes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1466.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4906.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6531.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:35 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 466, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd708955-034a-4d8b-99b7-224ac23d5d75. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).