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Bill	Child daycare facilities.	Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of daycare centers by the State Department of Social Services. Existing regulations require a separate license to be issued for each component of a daycare center. Existing law required the department to adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2021, to create a childcare center license to serve infant, toddler, preschool, and schoolage children, and requires, before January 1, 2024, all daycare centers to be licensed as childcare centers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2131	California AB 2131 (20212022)	bill	Child daycare facilities.	enacted	Mullin	8	31	9	2022-02-15	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/96323fcd-d3ab-4025-8438-42c995cd489d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2131	d81ab6ee3de546623ef914539003dcf0c59563ddd0bb956b3b8ebfd6eff1ce96	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2131 (20212022) — Child daycare facilities.

Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of daycare centers by the State Department of Social Services. Existing regulations require a separate license to be issued for each component of a daycare center. Existing law required the department to adopt regulations on or before January 1, 2021, to create a childcare center license to serve infant, toddler, preschool, and schoolage children, and requires, before January 1, 2024, all daycare centers to be licensed as childcare centers.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2131 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2131 Mullin Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2131 Mullin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB2131 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mullin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-15 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2022-02-24 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and ED. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4986.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-24 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 910, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96323fcd-d3ab-4025-8438-42c995cd489d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).