---
type: "Bill"
title: "Suicide prevention."
description: "Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health within the California Health and Human Services Agency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2112"
citation: "California AB 2112 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Suicide prevention."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ramos"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b561157-d4a7-49ba-8c6a-609170c2c479"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112"
source_hash: "8b073ef7a6c1023febddd23243ba661f73f0958bbad4d3bb9cd858684afc5cb7"
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 2112 (20192020) — Suicide prevention.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health within the California Health and Human Services Agency.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211299INT)
2. **03/16/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211298AMD)
3. **05/20/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211297AMD)
4. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211296AMD)
5. **07/15/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211295AMD)
6. **08/12/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211294AMD)
7. **08/20/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211293AMD)
8. **08/24/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211292AMD)
9. **09/25/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211290CHP)
10. **AB2112** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112)
11. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2112&version=20190AB211291ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2112 Ramos Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2112 Ramos Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2112 Ramos et al. By Hurtado — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ramos — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — principal coauthor (person)
- Beall — principal coauthor (person)
- Berman — principal coauthor (person)
- Bigelow — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — principal coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2020-02-20** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-03-17** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4785.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-15** 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`
- **2020-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5425.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 142, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b561157-d4a7-49ba-8c6a-609170c2c479`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).