republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1396.md

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Bill	Surrogacy.	Existing law requires an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to include certain terms, including, among others, the identity of the intended parent or parents. Upon the petition of any party to a properly executed assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers, a court is required to issue a judgment or order establishing a parent-child relationship between the child or children and the intended parent or parents identified in the surrogacy agreement and further establishing that the surrogate, her spouse, or partner is not a parent of, and has no parental rights or duties with respect to, the child or children. Existing law requires the judgment or order to terminate any parental rights of the surrogate and her spouse or partner without further hearing or evidence, unless specified conditions are met.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1396	California AB 1396 (20172018)	bill	Surrogacy.	enacted	Burke	6	20	5	2017-02-17	2017-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7d2a3a87-bac1-418f-8dcb-d20c8bb105db	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1396	1389b201f9a926381d35bc8b9fbd6d07fd7df0cb469ecd84b02ead0234699b48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1396 (20172018) — Surrogacy.

Existing law requires an assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers to include certain terms, including, among others, the identity of the intended parent or parents. Upon the petition of any party to a properly executed assisted reproduction agreement for gestational carriers, a court is required to issue a judgment or order establishing a parent-child relationship between the child or children and the intended parent or parents identified in the surrogacy agreement and further establishing that the surrogate, her spouse, or partner is not a parent of, and has no parental rights or duties with respect to, the child or children. Existing law requires the judgment or order to terminate any parental rights of the surrogate and her spouse or partner without further hearing or evidence, unless specified conditions are met.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/04/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/11/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1396 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1396 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1396 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — 66–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1396 Burke By Jackson — 38–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-05-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 6. Page 1886.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-07-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-07-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2331.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2934.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 326, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7d2a3a87-bac1-418f-8dcb-d20c8bb105db. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).