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Bill	Gender.	(1) Existing law contains various provisions that define sex as including gender and define gender as including a person's gender identity and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 887	California AB 887 (20112012)	bill	Gender.	enacted	Atkins	7	28	6	2011-02-17	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/24cf269d-2321-47f4-866a-a3cf47f9fa8e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB887	80ed05540a7aa63248cecd499ebec12b7a8a120c0370d4dc75a71d064d033a86	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 887 (20112012) — Gender.

(1) Existing law contains various provisions that define sex as including gender and define gender as including a person's gender identity and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/17/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB887 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 887 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• AB 887 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — 54–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB887 Atkins By Padilla — 25–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Atkins — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• De León — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)
• John A. Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Kehoe — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Yee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 24. Page 1388.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-26 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-16 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-06-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 2130.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 2843.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 719, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24cf269d-2321-47f4-866a-a3cf47f9fa8e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).