---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care: mental health."
description: "Health care: mental health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2551"
citation: "California AB 2551 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care: mental health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nation"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-21"
last_action: "2002-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4d0646b-9dd7-4c58-b100-c86588579eb5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2551"
source_hash: "ca89a36857dd244fc1ce86733b19ba332bf0e6780d6ada0695a960ccbd9f4b9e"
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 2551 (20012002) — Health care: mental health.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2551&version=20010AB255199INT)
2. **08/26/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2551&version=20010AB255197CHP)
3. **AB2551** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2551)
4. **08/12/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2551&version=20010AB255198ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2551 Nation By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2551 Nation Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-08-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 276, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-08-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-12** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2002-08-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5364.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-06-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-06-06** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-09** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-04-22** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5640.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-11** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-03-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2002-02-21** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/c4d0646b-9dd7-4c58-b100-c86588579eb5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).