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Bill	Marriage and domestic partnership: minors.	Existing law authorizes an unmarried person who is under 18 years of age to marry upon obtaining a court order granting permission and the written consent of at least one of the parents or the guardian of each underage party to the marriage, as specified. Existing law requires the court, if it considers it necessary, as part of the court order granting permission to marry, to require the parties to the prospective marriage of a minor to participate in premarital counseling, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 273	California SB 273 (20172018)	bill	Marriage and domestic partnership: minors.	enacted	Hill	15	50	0	2017-02-09	2018-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/7549df59-19a8-4220-ae8c-5fb0e7311cb7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB273	8324ef3470f49a9905a9c1cb0e35e45ae844e902a9dd5ad2759874cdaea42b95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 273 (20172018) — Marriage and domestic partnership: minors.

Existing law authorizes an unmarried person who is under 18 years of age to marry upon obtaining a court order granting permission and the written consent of at least one of the parents or the guardian of each underage party to the marriage, as specified. Existing law requires the court, if it considers it necessary, as part of the court order granting permission to marry, to require the parties to the prospective marriage of a minor to participate in premarital counseling, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/15/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/06/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/08/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/21/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
14. SB273 (committee substitute) — source
15. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Hill — primary (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2017-03-09 Set for hearing March 21.
• 2017-03-16 March 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E., U. & C. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2017-04-24 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
• 2017-05-01 May 2 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-02 Set for hearing May 9.
• 2017-05-03 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
• 2017-05-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1020.) (May 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-16 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2017-05-22 May 22 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-23 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1180.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 2 p.m.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1339.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-12 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-21 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-19 July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (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 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2018-06-28 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Gonzalez Fletcher.
• 2018-07-02 From inactive file.
• 2018-07-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6701.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5924.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 660, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7549df59-19a8-4220-ae8c-5fb0e7311cb7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).