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Bill	Guardianships.	(1) Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, under which a minor may be adjudged to be a dependent of the court if the minor has been abused or neglected, as specified. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court, if the court finds that a child is abused or neglected, and the parent has advised the court that the parent is not interested in family maintenance or family reunification services, in addition to or in lieu of adjudicating the child a dependent child of the court, to order a legal guardianship and appoint a legal guardian, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2309	California AB 2309 (20212022)	bill	Guardianships.	enacted	Friedman	8	28	10	2022-02-16	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/3552206b-2dda-4300-b01e-dc2c6299efc9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2309	f7103e0b8a0b90cc9859d0b1a21571e190d149147b6dd6517810a9b5b7eca1c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2309 (20212022) — Guardianships.

(1) Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, under which a minor may be adjudged to be a dependent of the court if the minor has been abused or neglected, as specified. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court, if the court finds that a child is abused or neglected, and the parent has advised the court that the parent is not interested in family maintenance or family reunification services, in addition to or in lieu of adjudicating the child a dependent child of the court, to order a legal guardianship and appoint a legal guardian, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2309 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2309 Friedman Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2309 Friedman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2309 Friedman By Caballero — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Human Services] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Friedman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-14 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-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4840.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-02 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. 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
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 780, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3552206b-2dda-4300-b01e-dc2c6299efc9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).