republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1936.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maternal mental health screenings."
description: "Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1936"
citation: "California AB 1936 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Maternal mental health screenings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c346fdd3-8480-4419-9d73-e6a3aa760a49"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936"
source_hash: "406185b07a6a0db3d01d74e3f667fa746ca04b6485bbef5dcbf1268e2350aa4c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1936 (20232024) — Maternal mental health screenings.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/25/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193699INT)
2. **03/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193698AMD)
3. **04/08/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193697AMD)
4. **06/11/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193696AMD)
5. **08/07/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193695AMD)
6. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193693CHP)
7. **AB1936** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936)
8. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1936&version=20230AB193694ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1936 Cervantes Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1936 Cervantes et al. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1936 Cervantes et al. By Rubio — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1936 Cervantes Concurrence in Senate Amendments By MAIENSCHEIN — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cervantes — primary (person)
- Rubio — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** From printer. May be heard in committee February 25.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11** 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`
- **2024-03-12** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** 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`
- **2024-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5157.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-22** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-06-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4626.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-06-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-07-01** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2024-07-01** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2024-08-07** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-08-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-07** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 5270.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 815, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c346fdd3-8480-4419-9d73-e6a3aa760a49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).