republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2129.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Immediate postpartum contraception."
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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally regulates contractual provisions between health care service plans and health insurers and their contracting health care providers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2129"
citation: "California AB 2129 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Immediate postpartum contraception"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petrie-Norris"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-06"
last_action: "2024-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb2c2837-805f-4fd5-9e20-52ea23141e87"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129"
source_hash: "74fe3d3010dec1e428bfe237872aa36a61fbebd52cedf30bbc7ac951bf40808a"
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 2129 (20232024) — Immediate postpartum contraception.

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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law generally regulates contractual provisions between health care service plans and health insurers and their contracting health care providers.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129&version=20230AB212999INT)
2. **04/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129&version=20230AB212998AMD)
3. **07/03/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129&version=20230AB212997AMD)
4. **09/29/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129&version=20230AB212995CHP)
5. **AB2129** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129)
6. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2129&version=20230AB212996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2129 Petrie-Norris Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2129 Petrie-Norris et al. By Rubio — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2129 Petrie-Norris — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2129 Petrie-Norris Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Petrie-Norris — primary (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2024-02-20** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 9). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5088.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-15** 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`
- **2024-06-17** 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. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-06-24** Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
- **2024-06-24** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2024-06-25** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2024-07-03** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-07-03** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-07-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5230.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 950, 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/eb2c2837-805f-4fd5-9e20-52ea23141e87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).