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type: "Bill"
title: "Child care: administration: preferred placement of children of 11 or 12 years of age."
description: "Existing law requires children who are 11 or 12 years of age, who are receiving subsidized child care services, and for whom a before or after school program is not available, to continue to receive subsidized child care services. Existing law establishes when a before or after school program shall be considered \"not available\" as when the parent certifies in writing, on a form provided by the State Department of Education, the reasons why the program would not meet the child care needs of the family."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1944"
citation: "California AB 1944 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child care: administration: preferred placement of children of 11 or 12 years of age."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garcia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2014-02-19"
last_action: "2014-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/335f08a4-1de2-43e6-a083-ab6f61e3030b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1944"
source_hash: "1ce101ddc26ecec403b5dd48066c886ea18cc80480625f2648e060c336ae4f1f"
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 1944 (20132014) — Child care: administration: preferred placement of children of 11 or 12 years of age.
Existing law requires children who are 11 or 12 years of age, who are receiving subsidized child care services, and for whom a before or after school program is not available, to continue to receive subsidized child care services. Existing law establishes when a before or after school program shall be considered "not available" as when the parent certifies in writing, on a form provided by the State Department of Education, the reasons why the program would not meet the child care needs of the family.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1944&version=20130AB194499INT)
2. **09/19/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1944&version=20130AB194497CHP)
3. **AB1944** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1944)
4. **08/15/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1944&version=20130AB194498ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **134** (pass) · lower
- AB 1944 GARCIA Assembly Third Reading — **5818** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **51** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1944 Garcia By Monning — **278** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **51** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Garcia — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 5176.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 4457.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 460, Statutes of 2014.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/335f08a4-1de2-43e6-a083-ab6f61e3030b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).