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Bill	Maternal mental health.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions, including, but not limited to, physicians and surgeons, by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law imposes certain fines and other penalties for, and authorizes these boards to take disciplinary action against licensees for, violations of the provisions governing those professions. Existing law requires a licensed health care practitioner who provides prenatal or postpartum care for a patient to offer to screen or appropriately screen a mother for maternal mental health conditions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1477	California AB 1477 (20212022)	bill	Maternal mental health.	enacted	Cervantes	8	28	6	2021-02-19	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/ae9975d9-3e8a-4a0f-b4b4-d06163b90669	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1477	c7f63979ff7393cc7ab7c67ae560fab5352b0fb9f2847d8d4a68e0142173b762	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1477 (20212022) — Maternal mental health.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions, including, but not limited to, physicians and surgeons, by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law imposes certain fines and other penalties for, and authorizes these boards to take disciplinary action against licensees for, violations of the provisions governing those professions. Existing law requires a licensed health care practitioner who provides prenatal or postpartum care for a patient to offer to screen or appropriately screen a mother for maternal mental health conditions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1477 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1477 Cervantes Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1477 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1477 Cervantes By Limón — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-25 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 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-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-19 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-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 27). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1657.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2288.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 2703.)
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2824.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 535, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ae9975d9-3e8a-4a0f-b4b4-d06163b90669. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).