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type: "Bill"
title: "Natural parent and child relationship: establishment."
description: "Existing law requires the property of a decedent's estate not disposed of by will to be passed to the decedent's heirs through intestate succession and provides for the intestate rights between a natural parent and child. Existing law establishes a natural parent and child relationship, for the purposes of intestate succession, based on provisions of the Uniform Parentage Act, except as the provisions of that act are specifically excluded. Existing law authorizes a provision of the Uniform Parentage Act to be used to establish a natural parent and child relationship if it was impossible for the father to hold out the child as his own and paternity is established by clear and convincing evidence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1436"
citation: "California SB 1436 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural parent and child relationship: establishment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74d8316d-c233-4256-be9d-7e7b920a1aef"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436"
source_hash: "e916fa88a36d683b7a9e22b4ef1e46952a1e7619a4a5ba3ed465964483897645"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 1436 (20172018) — Natural parent and child relationship: establishment.
Existing law requires the property of a decedent's estate not disposed of by will to be passed to the decedent's heirs through intestate succession and provides for the intestate rights between a natural parent and child. Existing law establishes a natural parent and child relationship, for the purposes of intestate succession, based on provisions of the Uniform Parentage Act, except as the provisions of that act are specifically excluded. Existing law authorizes a provision of the Uniform Parentage Act to be used to establish a natural parent and child relationship if it was impossible for the father to hold out the child as his own and paternity is established by clear and convincing evidence.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143699INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143698AMD)
3. **04/30/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143697AMD)
4. **06/07/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143696AMD)
5. **07/16/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143694CHP)
6. **SB1436** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436)
7. **07/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1436&version=20170SB143695ENR)
## Votes
- Unfinished Business SB1436 Portantino Concurrence — **370** (pass) · upper
- SB 1436 Portantino Consent Calendar Second Day — **800** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **90** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB1436 — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Portantino — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2018-04-23** May 8 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-04-24** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2018-04-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-30** May 1 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-05-01** Set for hearing May 8.
- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4998.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5088.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-25** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5860.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-07-02** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5025.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-07-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 116, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74d8316d-c233-4256-be9d-7e7b920a1aef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).