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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Overdose fatality review teams."
+description: "Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law requires a coroner or medical examiner who evaluates an individual who died, in the coroner's or medical examiner's expert opinion, as the result of an overdose as a contributing factor, to report the incident to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20232024"
+identifier: "AB 2871"
+citation: "California AB 2871 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Overdose fatality review teams"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2024-02-15"
+last_action: "2024-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27679aca-2ebf-4c57-877f-41cacbd1a671"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871"
+source_hash: "bfcdf148c29d1136ea01d7172092290458dc32ac9712edeccc75c25458950772"
+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 2871 (20232024) — Overdose fatality review teams.
+
+Existing law requires a county coroner to inquire into and determine the circumstances, manner, and cause of certain deaths. Existing law either requires or authorizes a county coroner, under certain circumstances, to perform, or cause to be performed, an autopsy on a decedent. Existing law requires a coroner or medical examiner who evaluates an individual who died, in the coroner's or medical examiner's expert opinion, as the result of an overdose as a contributing factor, to report the incident to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program, as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871&version=20230AB287199INT)
+2. **04/24/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871&version=20230AB287198AMD)
+3. **08/14/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871&version=20230AB287197AMD)
+4. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871&version=20230AB287195CHP)
+5. **AB2871** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871)
+6. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2871&version=20230AB287196ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2871 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB2871 Maienschein By Padilla — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2871 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maienschein — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2024-03-18** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-15** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5445.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on PUB S. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2024-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-12** From Consent Calendar.
+- **2024-08-12** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2024-08-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2024-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2024-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
+- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 639, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/27679aca-2ebf-4c57-877f-41cacbd1a671`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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