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Bill	Visitation rights.	Existing law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings. Existing law requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody or visitation, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including the health, safety, and welfare of the child, and the nature and amount of contact with both parents, except as specified. Existing law also requires the court to determine, under designated circumstances, whether to require that visitation to be supervised, suspended, limited, or denied. Under existing law, if the court finds that a party is staying in a domestic violence shelter or other confidential location, the court is required to design a visitation order to prevent disclosure of the location of the shelter or other confidential location.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 599	California SB 599 (20232024)	bill	Visitation rights	enacted	Caballero	7	30	8	2023-02-15	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e15c3379-0355-4d25-888d-e55945e8f03d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB599	16766528dbe1e28b85c23d702ea01e3131814da370f3a77d0963ccb70710dce6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 599 (20232024) — Visitation rights.

Existing law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings. Existing law requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody or visitation, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including the health, safety, and welfare of the child, and the nature and amount of contact with both parents, except as specified. Existing law also requires the court to determine, under designated circumstances, whether to require that visitation to be supervised, suspended, limited, or denied. Under existing law, if the court finds that a party is staying in a domestic violence shelter or other confidential location, the court is required to design a visitation order to prevent disclosure of the location of the shelter or other confidential location.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/28/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB599 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 599 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Petrie-Norris — 60–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB599 Caballero et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB599 Caballero et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Ashby — principal coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — principal coauthor (person)
• Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)
• Wilson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 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
• 2023-04-11 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 799.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 May 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-05-02 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1176.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1406.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-24 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bryan.
• 2023-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-08-28 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 60. Noes 3. Page 2885.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-01 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2464.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 493, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e15c3379-0355-4d25-888d-e55945e8f03d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).