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SENATE BILL 347 (BEILENSON – 1975)
CHAPTER 1244, STATUTES OF 1975
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Senate Bill 347 was introduced on February 4, 1975 by Senator Anthony C. Beilenson. (See Exhibit A, #1a) Senate Bill 347 enacted the “Uniform Parentage Act.” (See Exhibit A, #1j; #3; and #12, document PE-1)
After its introduction, Senate Bill 347 was heard first by the Senate Committee on Judiciary and then by the Senate Committee on Finance. (See Exhibit A, #2 and #3) In the Assembly, Senate Bill 347 was considered by the Assembly Committee on Judiciary and the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means. (See Exhibit A, #2 and #8)
Because the Assembly amended Senate Bill 347, the bill was sent back to the Senate for a vote of concurrence of the Assembly amendments. The Senate initially refused to concur in the Assembly amendments and a Conference
Committee was appointed. (See Exhibit A, #2) The purpose of a Conference Committee is to bring together six legislators, three from each House, in an attempt to reach a compromise on a bill’s language which is acceptable to both the Senate and the Assembly.
The Conference Committee successfully developed a bill that was acceptable to both Houses, which approved the revised bill on September 12, 1975. (See Exhibit A, #1i) Senate Bill 347 was approved by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., on October 1, 1975, and recorded by the Secretary of State on that date as Chapter 1244 of the Statutes of 1975. (See Exhibit A, #1j and #2)
The Legislative Analyst analysis of Senate Bill 347 provides the following digest of the bill as amended on August 19, 1975:
This bill enacts the Uniform Parentage Act to provide a procedure to establish the parent-child relationship without reference to legitimacy or illegitimacy.
(See Exhibit A, #5, page 1)