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Bill	Child custody.	Existing law requires the court to consider, and give due weight to, the wishes of the child in making an order granting or modifying custody or visitation if the child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody or visitation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 654	California SB 654 (20212022)	bill	Child custody.	enacted	Min	9	34	6	2021-02-19	2021-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/990039a3-78ee-4e4d-bb9a-575311b37654	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB654	dc720106cb77cc77575d42694576bc616b70c94bbe0bdb416b83834cbdf9f36e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 654 (20212022) — Child custody.

Existing law requires the court to consider, and give due weight to, the wishes of the child in making an order granting or modifying custody or visitation if the child is of sufficient age and capacity to reason so as to form an intelligent preference as to custody or visitation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB654 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB654 Min et al. Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 654 Min Senate Third Reading By Blanca Rubio — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB654 Min et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Min — primary (person)
• Borgeas — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2021-03-23 April 6 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-03-25 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-04-05 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 776.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-04-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-17 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-17 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1229.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2720.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2378.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 768, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/990039a3-78ee-4e4d-bb9a-575311b37654. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).