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Bill	Family law: adoption.	(1) Existing law provides for the termination of parental rights in adoption proceedings. In connection with those proceedings, existing law requires a court to inquire of the mother and other specified persons and entities in an effort to identify the natural father of the child to be adopted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1757	California AB 1757 (20112012)	bill	Family law: adoption.	enacted	Fletcher	9	27	6	2012-02-17	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/39c342be-6da5-403b-bb3d-034be1407532	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1757	7acfb0f158762d1978511a2081149c965ddd1813368d21688539547ce7ed9bf9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1757 (20112012) — Family law: adoption.

(1) Existing law provides for the termination of parental rights in adoption proceedings. In connection with those proceedings, existing law requires a court to inquire of the mother and other specified persons and entities in an effort to identify the natural father of the child to be adopted.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/07/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1757 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1757 FLETCHER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1757 Fletcher By Cannella — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1757 FLETCHER Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Fletcher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 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
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 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
• 2012-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-07 From consent calendar.
• 2012-05-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5170.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-03 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 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4636.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6240.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 638, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/39c342be-6da5-403b-bb3d-034be1407532. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).