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Bill	Child care.	Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, provides 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 an alternative payment program that requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with local government agencies or nonprofit organizations to provide alternative payments and to provide support services to parents and providers.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 168	California SB 168 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Child care.	enacted	Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review	5	21	3	2021-01-08	2021-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/f5593142-b102-4fc9-afbb-3eda5b22f8f5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB168	c295d69a65341680727b3ef6378b8844343857eaabf199e7ca9f6e16504823c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 168 (20212022) — Child care.

Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, provides 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 an alternative payment program that requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with local government agencies or nonprofit organizations to provide alternative payments and to provide support services to parents and providers.

Version chain

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

1. 01/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB168 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading SB168 — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB168 B. & F.R. (Skinner) Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 168 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-08 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-01-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
• 2021-01-11 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2021-02-16 Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 26. Noes 5. Page 201.)
• 2021-02-16 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-02-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-02-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 291.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-02-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2021-02-25 (Corrected May 14).
• 2021-09-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-09-07 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 2809.)
• 2021-09-07 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2021-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2961.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2574.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2021-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 261, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f5593142-b102-4fc9-afbb-3eda5b22f8f5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).