republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2595.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juveniles: dependency: jurisdiction of the juvenile court."
description: "Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge certain children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child has suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of various types of neglect. Existing law requires, whenever a social worker has cause to believe that there was or is a child within the county who may be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, the social worker to immediately make any investigation the social worker deems necessary to determine whether child welfare services should be offered to the family and whether proceedings in the juvenile court should be commenced."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2595"
citation: "California AB 2595 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juveniles: dependency: jurisdiction of the juvenile court."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/734dd761-f6d9-4661-abf5-52de171aad21"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595"
source_hash: "2bac34310d3d9707540e09f005c62c7686403a75b893ddecad92879a3ff8a5d0"
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 2595 (20212022) — Juveniles: dependency: jurisdiction of the juvenile court.

Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge certain children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child has suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of various types of neglect. Existing law requires, whenever a social worker has cause to believe that there was or is a child within the county who may be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, the social worker to immediately make any investigation the social worker deems necessary to determine whether child welfare services should be offered to the family and whether proceedings in the juvenile court should be commenced.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595&version=20210AB259599INT)
2. **03/23/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595&version=20210AB259598AMD)
3. **03/30/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595&version=20210AB259597AMD)
4. **09/06/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595&version=20210AB259595CHP)
5. **AB2595** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595)
6. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2595&version=20210AB259596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 2595 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **58–9** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2595 Jones-Sawyer By Caballero — **31–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** 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`
- **2022-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-30** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-03-31** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 9. Page 4913.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 5097.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-24** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 260, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/734dd761-f6d9-4661-abf5-52de171aad21`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).