republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-290.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child day care: childhood nutrition training."
description: "Existing law, the California Child Day Care Act, requires that, as a condition of licensure and in addition to any other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, covering specified components, including preventive health practices courses. Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to establish minimum standards for that training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 290"
citation: "California AB 290 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child day care: childhood nutrition training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alejo"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-11"
last_action: "2013-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bff5cd65-fec0-4890-8eef-ef76dadd6c04"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290"
source_hash: "eb09789322e43f74c35675cff8e3fbb96c7cc078491270e862e00adda7e7cf24"
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 290 (20132014) — Child day care: childhood nutrition training.

Existing law, the California Child Day Care Act, requires that, as a condition of licensure and in addition to any other required training, at least one director or teacher at each day care center, and each family day care home licensee who provides care, have at least 15 hours of health and safety training, covering specified components, including preventive health practices courses. Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to establish minimum standards for that training.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290&version=20130AB29099INT)
2. **05/20/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290&version=20130AB29098AMD)
3. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290&version=20130AB29097AMD)
4. **10/11/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290&version=20130AB29095CHP)
5. **AB290** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290)
6. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB290&version=20130AB29096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB290 Alejo By Jackson — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 290 ALEJO Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 290 ALEJO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alejo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2013-02-21** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** From consent calendar.
- **2013-04-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1156.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-24** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2013-08-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2177.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3033.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 734, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bff5cd65-fec0-4890-8eef-ef76dadd6c04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).