republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-752.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child daycare facilities."
description: "Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of daycare centers and family daycare homes by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, the use of a home as a small or large family daycare home is considered a residential use of property and a use by right for the purposes of all local ordinances, including zoning ordinances, and a local jurisdiction is prohibited from imposing a business license, fee, or tax for the privilege of operating a small or large family daycare home. Existing law also exempts small and large family daycare homes from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 752"
citation: "California AB 752 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Childdaycarefacilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ávila Farías"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7768cf4-6361-4886-b099-a7feaef849a0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752"
source_hash: "c46e8310c14b89a1644ca0a3fb0407e50239bae5eec589a8d6aa4cfa87b04502"
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 752 (20252026) — Child daycare facilities.

Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of daycare centers and family daycare homes by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, the use of a home as a small or large family daycare home is considered a residential use of property and a use by right for the purposes of all local ordinances, including zoning ordinances, and a local jurisdiction is prohibited from imposing a business license, fee, or tax for the privilege of operating a small or large family daycare home. Existing law also exempts small and large family daycare homes from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75299INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75298AMD)
3. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75297AMD)
4. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75296AMD)
5. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75294CHP)
6. **AB752** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752)
7. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB752&version=20250AB75295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 752 Ávila Farías Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Local Government] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB752 Ávila Farías By Arreguín — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 752 Ávila Farías Assembly Third Reading — **72–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ávila Farías — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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`
- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 1557.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2661.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3227.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 164, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7768cf4-6361-4886-b099-a7feaef849a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).