republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-495.md

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Bill	Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025.	(1) Under existing law, a caregiver who is 18 years of age or older and signs a caregiver's authorization affidavit under penalty of perjury for a minor who lives in their home is authorized to enroll the minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. Under existing law, a caregiver who is 18 years of age or older, signs the caregiver's authorization affidavit under penalty of perjury, and who is a certain type of relative of the minor who lives in their home, has the same rights to authorize medical care and dental care for the minor that are given to guardians, as specified. Under existing law, a person who acts in good faith reliance on a completed caregiver's authorization affidavit to provide medical or dental care, without actual knowledge of facts contrary to those stated on the affidavit, is not subject to criminal or civil liability or professional disciplinary action for that reliance, but is not relieved from liability for violations of other provisions of law.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 495	California AB 495 (20252026)	bill	FamilyPreparednessPlanActof2025	enacted	Celeste Rodriguez	9	35	10	2025-02-10	2025-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/ca01655c-eda8-4676-a723-3d87c5966307	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB495	6f8fe4d75fcc3dbde75f71f9672c382771913c5190c708fa185af16c38dc0432	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 495 (20252026) — Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025.

(1) Under existing law, a caregiver who is 18 years of age or older and signs a caregiver's authorization affidavit under penalty of perjury for a minor who lives in their home is authorized to enroll the minor in school and consent to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. Under existing law, a caregiver who is 18 years of age or older, signs the caregiver's authorization affidavit under penalty of perjury, and who is a certain type of relative of the minor who lives in their home, has the same rights to authorize medical care and dental care for the minor that are given to guardians, as specified. Under existing law, a person who acts in good faith reliance on a completed caregiver's authorization affidavit to provide medical or dental care, without actual knowledge of facts contrary to those stated on the affidavit, is not subject to criminal or civil liability or professional disciplinary action for that reliance, but is not relieved from liability for violations of other provisions of law.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/12/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB495 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 495 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 62–7 (pass) · lower
• AB 495 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–20 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB495 Celeste Rodriguez By Arreguín — 29–10 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Celeste Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Addis — coauthor (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Ahrens — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Connolly — coauthor (person)
• Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Harabedian — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Mark González — coauthor (person)
• Menjivar — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Richardson — coauthor (person)
• Stefani — coauthor (person)
• Wahab — principal coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Zbur — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 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
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 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
• 2025-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-28 Measure version as amended on April 23 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2025-04-30 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 7. Page 1986.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2834.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 20. Page 3317.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled measure version corrected.
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 664, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ca01655c-eda8-4676-a723-3d87c5966307. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).