---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: maternal mental health."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 577"
citation: "California AB 577 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: maternal mental health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04da034a-6042-4f94-8e4b-a3461eaeb829"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577"
source_hash: "4c11715616b6c4343efba2fa5ca46bfd6592c61aef5a23a5cd80c2e47427385a"
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 577 (20192020) — Health care coverage: maternal mental health.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57799INT)
2. **03/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57798AMD)
3. **05/17/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57797AMD)
4. **06/28/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57796AMD)
5. **07/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57795AMD)
6. **08/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57794AMD)
7. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57792CHP)
8. **AB577** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577)
9. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB577&version=20190AB57793ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 577 Eggman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 577 Eggman Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB577 Eggman et al. By Portantino — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eggman — primary (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2019-02-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-26** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1979.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2445.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3017.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 776, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/04da034a-6042-4f94-8e4b-a3461eaeb829`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).