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Bill	Child care and development services: online portal.	The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law designates the State Department of Education as the single state agency responsible for the promotion, development, and provision of care of children in the absence of their parents during the workday or while engaged in other activities that require assistance of a third party. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer general child care and development programs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2960	California AB 2960 (20172018)	bill	Child care and development services: online portal.	enacted	Thurmond	11	33	10	2018-02-16	2018-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/0c55212e-cdbf-4000-b2d2-88a628ba02c4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2960	a8dff1425e535eb2ebdff48511412b9d5cc2d819c37ed2d95934602d833d6c49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2960 (20172018) — Child care and development services: online portal.

The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law designates the State Department of Education as the single state agency responsible for the promotion, development, and provision of care of children in the absence of their parents during the workday or while engaged in other activities that require assistance of a third party. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer general child care and development programs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/27/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2960 (committee substitute) — source
11. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2960 Thurmond By Mitchell — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2960 THURMOND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2960 THURMOND Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Thurmond — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-04-02 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5539.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on ED. 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 20). 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. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (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
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5766.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6859.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 829, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0c55212e-cdbf-4000-b2d2-88a628ba02c4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).