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Bill	Domestic violence: family court.	Existing law requires a family court to determine the best interests of the child for purposes of deciding child custody in proceedings for dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage, legal separation of the parties, petitions for exclusive custody of a child, and proceedings under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act. In making that determination, existing law requires the court to consider specified factors, including whether either of the child's parents habitually or continually uses alcohol or illegal drugs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2044	California AB 2044 (20172018)	bill	Domestic violence: family court.	enacted	Mark Stone	7	28	5	2018-02-06	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/719c274b-bbb7-49dc-9ebc-3a8279512b72	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2044	0f7971fd442bd44c5292540981550db05cf65d53f79d6a087eb14d30c0030ff1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2044 (20172018) — Domestic violence: family court.

Existing law requires a family court to determine the best interests of the child for purposes of deciding child custody in proceedings for dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage, legal separation of the parties, petitions for exclusive custody of a child, and proceedings under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act. In making that determination, existing law requires the court to consider specified factors, including whether either of the child's parents habitually or continually uses alcohol or illegal drugs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/31/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/16/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2044 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2044 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 51–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2044 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2044 Mark Stone et al. By Jackson — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2044 Mark Stone et al. By Jackson — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2018-02-16 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 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
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 0. Page 4530.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-05-31 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
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5035.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-07-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-13 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2018-08-13 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2018-08-16 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2018-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5552.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6608.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 941, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/719c274b-bbb7-49dc-9ebc-3a8279512b72. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).