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type: "Bill"
title: "Adoption."
description: "Existing law establishes procedures for stepparent adoptions involving a spouse or partner who gave birth to the child during the marriage or domestic partnership. Among other things, existing law exempts those adoptions from the requirements of a home investigation and a hearing, as well as specified costs, unless the court orders otherwise."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1373"
citation: "California AB 1373 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Patterson"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-08-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86d0b842-d1f5-499b-8b59-7de727a572d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373"
source_hash: "11b38848394c10d0d5f2560864d330fca3d599e2a09c6b3058ceb201a5aa62d3"
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 AB 1373 (20192020) — Adoption.
Existing law establishes procedures for stepparent adoptions involving a spouse or partner who gave birth to the child during the marriage or domestic partnership. Among other things, existing law exempts those adoptions from the requirements of a home investigation and a hearing, as well as specified costs, unless the court orders otherwise.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373&version=20190AB137399INT)
2. **04/22/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373&version=20190AB137398AMD)
3. **05/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373&version=20190AB137397AMD)
4. **08/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373&version=20190AB137395CHP)
5. **AB1373** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373)
6. **08/13/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1373&version=20190AB137396ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1373 Patterson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **760** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1373 — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **120** (pass) · lower
- AB 1373 Patterson Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Patterson — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1523.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-05-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1608.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2657.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-08-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-08-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 192, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86d0b842-d1f5-499b-8b59-7de727a572d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).