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Bill	Vital records: birth certificates.	Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of a live birth. Under existing law, a certificate of live birth is required to contain, among other things, the full name, birthplace, and date of birth of both the father and mother of a child, except as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1951	California AB 1951 (20132014)	bill	Vital records: birth certificates.	enacted	Gomez	9	26	6	2014-02-19	2014-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/8ec280fa-7045-4eef-a5de-92f364eefe8c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1951	1730e907ee76efffc873df9c093337b9ab43f9b703952aa79c5d57a8fc88f20b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1951 (20132014) — Vital records: birth certificates.

Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of a live birth. Under existing law, a certificate of live birth is required to contain, among other things, the full name, birthplace, and date of birth of both the father and mother of a child, except as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/24/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/12/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1951 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1951 Gomez By Block — 26–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1951 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 53–14 (pass) · lower
• AB 1951 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 16–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-03-17 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
• 2014-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-03-25 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
• 2014-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-04-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 14. Page 4841.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-08-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-12 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 4. Page 4500.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 6209.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 334, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ec280fa-7045-4eef-a5de-92f364eefe8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).