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Bill	Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.	(1) Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits "911" to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 988	California AB 988 (20212022)	bill appropriation	Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	10	36	10	2021-02-18	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/a6df2cbf-ccb4-43a5-964f-006eec4540f3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB988	e671dcd419eaab64ad2d7bbff4f3b87aa01725b7c03d67c89fa787380289bf81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 988 (20212022) — Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

(1) Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits "911" to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/13/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB988 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 988 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB988 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Caballero Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Communications and Conveyance] — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 988 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence - Urgency Added — 64–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
• Archuleta — coauthor (person)
• Berman — author (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — author (person)
• Ramos — author (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Ting — author (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Villapudua — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and C. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on C. & C. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on C. & C. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-10 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-05-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1460.)
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1829.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Re-referred to Coms. on G.O., HEALTH, and E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 Action rescinded whereby the bill was re-referred to the Com. on E., U. & C. referral-committee
• 2022-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5131.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 747, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6df2cbf-ccb4-43a5-964f-006eec4540f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).