---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care coverage: contraceptive drugs."
description: "Health care coverage: contraceptive drugs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 39"
citation: "California AB 39 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care coverage: contraceptive drugs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 10
first_action: "1998-12-07"
last_action: "1999-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2a3e6cb-ee01-43c0-af9c-9ef79efcb04d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39"
source_hash: "cccf95299d97104533ed56e80251a5607c5b3fc0b8582631b4feec8cdca3ce3d"
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 39 (19992000) — Health care coverage: contraceptive drugs.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3999INT)
2. **03/18/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3998AMD)
3. **06/17/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3997AMD)
4. **09/02/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3996AMD)
5. **09/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3994CHP)
6. **AB39** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39)
7. **09/09/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB39&version=19990AB3995ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Committee amendments. — **fail** (fail) · legislature
- AB 39 HERTZBERG CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB39 Hertzberg By Speier — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB39 Hertzberg By Speier Amend by Leslie — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Committee amendments. — **fail** (fail) · upper
- AB 39 HERTZBERG THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Aroner — coauthor (person)
- Bowen — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Chesbro — coauthor (person)
- Costa — coauthor (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Hayden — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Karnette — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Lempert — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Mazzoni — coauthor (person)
- Murray — coauthor (person)
- Ortiz — coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Speier — principal coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wildman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 532, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **1999-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 43. Noes 24. Page 4243.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-08** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **1999-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **1999-09-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2980.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-02** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-04-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-04-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 1169.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-04-05** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-03-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (March 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-03-22** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (March 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-01-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1998-12-08** From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
- **1998-12-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2a3e6cb-ee01-43c0-af9c-9ef79efcb04d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).