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Bill	Nonminor dependents.	Existing law authorizes a nonminor who has not attained 21 years of age to petition the court in which he or she was previously found to be a dependent or delinquent child of the juvenile court for a hearing to determine whether the court may assume dependency jurisdiction over the nonminor, if he or she meets certain descriptions, including, among others, if he or she is a nonminor former dependent who received Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) Program aid or Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) benefits after attaining 18 years of age, and his or her guardians or former guardians died, as specified, or no longer provide ongoing support to, and no longer receive benefits on behalf of, the nonminor, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2337	California AB 2337 (20172018)	bill	Nonminor dependents.	enacted	Gipson	6	25	10	2018-02-13	2018-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/4ef96fe0-eecd-42d5-8b76-b30dff10b9aa	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2337	8fd9c87327850c5a872db22e03e6e4be7901a7d3d5cf367a82733c4c32e8f92c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2337 (20172018) — Nonminor dependents.

Existing law authorizes a nonminor who has not attained 21 years of age to petition the court in which he or she was previously found to be a dependent or delinquent child of the juvenile court for a hearing to determine whether the court may assume dependency jurisdiction over the nonminor, if he or she meets certain descriptions, including, among others, if he or she is a nonminor former dependent who received Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) Program aid or Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) benefits after attaining 18 years of age, and his or her guardians or former guardians died, as specified, or no longer provide ongoing support to, and no longer receive benefits on behalf of, the nonminor, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/19/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2337 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2337 Gipson et al. By Wiener — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2337 GIPSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2337 GIPSON Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-10 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5591.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 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 5559.). 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 80. Noes 0. Page 6622.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 539, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4ef96fe0-eecd-42d5-8b76-b30dff10b9aa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).