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Bill	Parent and child relationship.	(1) The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under certain circumstances. The Uniform Act on Blood Tests to Determine Paternity provides the procedures for the use of genetic testing, as defined, to determine paternity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2684	California AB 2684 (20172018)	bill	Parent and child relationship.	enacted	Bloom	8	28	8	2018-02-15	2018-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/6e45662e-35d8-4f97-a55d-dd656be02a8b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2684	08af8f575fddac8212e101a0dfc94607414423a97009b271636a442537b76db2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2684 (20172018) — Parent and child relationship.

(1) The Uniform Parentage Act defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under certain circumstances. The Uniform Act on Blood Tests to Determine Paternity provides the procedures for the use of genetic testing, as defined, to determine paternity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2684 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2684 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2684 Bloom et al. By Wieckowski — 35–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2684 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 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
• 2018-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-11 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 From Consent Calendar.
• 2018-05-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5123.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 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
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (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: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 2. Page 5994.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 7032.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 876, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e45662e-35d8-4f97-a55d-dd656be02a8b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).