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Bill
Certificates of death: gender identity.
Existing law requires that each death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found. Existing law designates persons responsible for completing a certificate of death and the required contents of the certificate, including, but not limited to, the decedent's name, sex, race, and other relevant identifying and medical information. Certain violations of these requirements are a crime.
us/states/ca
California Legislature
20212022
AB 439
California AB 439 (20212022)
Certificates of death: gender identity.
enacted
5
18
5
2021-02-04
2021-07-09
openstates
ocd-bill/1e125d9f-2b60-423e-a894-b1f5568ab9cd
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB439
7c418cfe33324355f7f54622c0f8b7661bc49b19e502d52e1ac01c5d4ea4e7b4
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
California AB 439 (20212022) — Certificates of death: gender identity.
Existing law requires that each death be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths in the district in which the death was officially pronounced or the body was found. Existing law designates persons responsible for completing a certificate of death and the required contents of the certificate, including, but not limited to, the decedent's name, sex, race, and other relevant identifying and medical information. Certain violations of these requirements are a crime.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
02/04/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
06/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
07/09/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
AB439 (committee substitute) — source
06/24/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
Do pass — 9– 1 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB439 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Wiener — 32– 6 (pass) · upper
AB 439 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 63– 0 (pass) · lower
AB 439 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 65– 2 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 13– 1 (pass) · lower
Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
Atkins — coauthor (person)
Cervantes — coauthor (person)
Chiu — coauthor (person)
Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
Eggman — coauthor (person)
Friedman — coauthor (person)
Laird — coauthor (person)
Lee — coauthor (person)
Low — coauthor (person)
Rubio — coauthor (person)
Stone — coauthor (person)
Ward — coauthor (person)
Wiener — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-02-05 From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
2021-02-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-04-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-04-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 2. Page 1065.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-04-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2021-06-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-06-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 1577.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-21 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2021-06-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 2089.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-06-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2021-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 53, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/1e125d9f-2b60-423e-a894-b1f5568ab9cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).