republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2187.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "County children's trust funds."
description: "Existing law requires that specified fees be paid by certain applicants for certified copies of birth certificates. Existing law provides that $4 of each fee be paid to either a county children's trust fund or to the State Children's Trust Fund, to fund child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs. Existing law requires a county treasurer to transmit moneys collected from birth certificate fees that are for the county children's trust fund and that are collected with respect to the birth certificate of a child whose mother was a resident of another county at the time of the birth to the treasurer of the county of the mother's residence at the time of the birth if the county to receive the funds, among other things, does not have a licensed health facility that provides maternity services within its jurisdiction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2187"
citation: "California AB 2187 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County children's trust funds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/627f553d-f025-40e3-bab5-79c972931f93"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187"
source_hash: "bb4add0cfbfb55778f0db0a35de863bf1b9414dd0b4e939c332720a75bf7d909"
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 2187 (20132014) — County children's trust funds.

Existing law requires that specified fees be paid by certain applicants for certified copies of birth certificates. Existing law provides that $4 of each fee be paid to either a county children's trust fund or to the State Children's Trust Fund, to fund child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs. Existing law requires a county treasurer to transmit moneys collected from birth certificate fees that are for the county children's trust fund and that are collected with respect to the birth certificate of a child whose mother was a resident of another county at the time of the birth to the treasurer of the county of the mother's residence at the time of the birth if the county to receive the funds, among other things, does not have a licensed health facility that provides maternity services within its jurisdiction.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187&version=20130AB218799INT)
2. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187&version=20130AB218798AMD)
3. **06/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187&version=20130AB218796CHP)
4. **AB2187** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187)
5. **06/18/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2187&version=20130AB218797ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2187 COOLEY Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cooley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2014-03-06** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4756.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3930.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-16** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2014-06-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-06-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 61, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/627f553d-f025-40e3-bab5-79c972931f93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).