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Bill	Certificates of death: veterans.	Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health under the direction of the State Public Health Officer. Existing law sets forth the 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 responsibility for the uniform and thorough enforcement of provisions relating to the registration of certain vital statistics.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 242	California AB 242 (20172018)	bill	Certificates of death: veterans.	enacted	Arambula	6	27	2	2017-01-30	2017-09-11	openstates	ocd-bill/0139a428-cb79-4be6-8f99-058632ff169e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB242	ae75e585381aa298cb235c80738c8fa6b03c38f536d3e5c8f879675edfd53b67	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 242 (20172018) — Certificates of death: veterans.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health under the direction of the State Public Health Officer. Existing law sets forth the 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 responsibility 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. 01/30/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/11/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB242 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 242 ARAMBULA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB242 — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — author (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-03-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-15 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-03-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 14). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1388.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-06-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on V.A. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2229.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2827.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
• 2017-09-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 222, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0139a428-cb79-4be6-8f99-058632ff169e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).