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Bill	Placement of children: criminal records check.	Existing law prohibits the State Department of Social Services, a county adoption agency, or a licensed adoption agency from giving final approval for an adoptive placement in a home in which the prospective adoptive parent or an adult living in the home has been convicted of certain felonies for which an exemption cannot be granted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 213	California SB 213 (20172018)	bill	Placement of children: criminal records check.	enacted	Mitchell	10	43	14	2017-02-01	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/194b8aba-06c1-4da2-a3fe-f4ea91d554a6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB213	abc91c3b1d3ff5cdf4f28d2786471d41546596402764862ce66941aa147dcc3b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 213 (20172018) — Placement of children: criminal records check.

Existing law prohibits the State Department of Social Services, a county adoption agency, or a licensed adoption agency from giving final approval for an adoptive placement in a home in which the prospective adoptive parent or an adult living in the home has been convicted of certain felonies for which an exemption cannot be granted.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB213 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 28–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 213 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By STONE — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB213 Mitchell Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 213 Mitchell Senate Third Reading Amend By STONE Set #1 — 54–18 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 31–7 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
• 2017-02-09 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-01 Set for hearing April 4.
• 2017-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 624.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-07 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2017-04-13 April 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 851.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-05 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1179.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 1249.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Motion to reconsider made by Senator Mitchell.
• 2017-05-30 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1282.)
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 12. Page 1282.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended. (Ayes 50. Noes 24. Page 3067.)
• 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 54. Noes 18. Page 3082.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-08 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-08 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 3083.)
• 2017-09-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 3491.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 3009.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 733, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/194b8aba-06c1-4da2-a3fe-f4ea91d554a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).