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type: "Bill"
title: "Certificates of death: gender identity."
description: "Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health under the direction of the State Public Health Officer. Existing law sets forth its powers and duties of the State Public Health Officer, including, but not limited to, designation as the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, having supervisory powers over local registrars and responsible for the uniform and thorough enforcement of provisions relating to the registration of certain vital statistics."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1577"
citation: "California AB 1577 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Certificates of death: gender identity."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-01-30"
last_action: "2014-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e2c8f3c-ed1f-47b9-b66c-419e0a25aefb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577"
source_hash: "6e9cc8c34090492b1fe67161f2ac6bd0296e45e5404820a72995de03e074bf3c"
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 1577 (20132014) — Certificates of death: gender identity.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health under the direction of the State Public Health Officer. Existing law sets forth its powers and duties of the State Public Health Officer, including, but not limited to, designation as the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, having supervisory powers over local registrars and responsible for the uniform and thorough enforcement of provisions relating to the registration of certain vital statistics.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/30/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157799INT)
2. **03/19/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157798AMD)
3. **06/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157797AMD)
4. **08/19/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157796AMD)
5. **08/22/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157795AMD)
6. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157793CHP)
7. **AB1577** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577)
8. **09/04/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1577&version=20130AB157794ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **61** (pass) · upper
- AB 1577 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **625** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **171** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1577 Atkins By Leno — **266** (pass) · upper
- AB 1577 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **674** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **71** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **143** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Atkins — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2014-01-30** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-31** From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 1.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 5. Page 4953.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 4890.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 24. Page 6646.)
- **2014-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 6654.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 631, Statutes of 2014.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1e2c8f3c-ed1f-47b9-b66c-419e0a25aefb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).