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Bill	Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers.	The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, governs proceedings to establish that relationship, and establishes the jurisdiction of the courts under the act. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in that assisted reproduction agreement. Existing law allows an action to establish the parent-child relationship between the intended parent or parents and the child as to a child conceived pursuant to an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to be filed before the child's birth and specifies the counties where that action may be filed.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2349	California AB 2349 (20152016)	bill	Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers.	enacted	Chiu	8	22	5	2016-02-18	2016-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f5d74256-fdf9-43a5-8963-ac79d424d554	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2349	2ea8ada23d06bed7ff952db29e3876b48de6feba162f85183935da3c96bc04ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2349 (20152016) — Assisted reproduction agreements for gestational carriers.

The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, governs proceedings to establish that relationship, and establishes the jurisdiction of the courts under the act. Existing law provides that a party to an assisted reproduction agreement may bring an action under the act at any time to establish a parent and child relationship consistent with the intent expressed in that assisted reproduction agreement. Existing law allows an action to establish the parent-child relationship between the intended parent or parents and the child as to a child conceived pursuant to an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to be filed before the child's birth and specifies the counties where that action may be filed.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2349 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2349 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2349 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2349 Chiu By Leno — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-03-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4887.) reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5007.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4981.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6044.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 385, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5d74256-fdf9-43a5-8963-ac79d424d554. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).