republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1893.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Maternal mental health: federal funding."
description: "Existing law finds and declares that prenatal care, delivery service, postpartum care, and neonatal and infant care are essential services necessary to assure maternal and infant health. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and maintain a statewide community-based comprehensive perinatal services program to, among other program objectives, ensure the appropriate level of maternal, newborn, and pediatric care services necessary to provide the healthiest outcome for mother and infant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1893"
citation: "California AB 1893 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Maternal mental health: federal funding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7dc731b-0428-4bd6-9de7-30e67e66e2e5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893"
source_hash: "2be8abc90cb0f8c0c0709389e54c64680b70815c868cbc56aff20c83796ba679"
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 1893 (20172018) — Maternal mental health: federal funding.

Existing law finds and declares that prenatal care, delivery service, postpartum care, and neonatal and infant care are essential services necessary to assure maternal and infant health. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and maintain a statewide community-based comprehensive perinatal services program to, among other program objectives, ensure the appropriate level of maternal, newborn, and pediatric care services necessary to provide the healthiest outcome for mother and infant.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/18/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893&version=20170AB189399INT)
2. **04/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893&version=20170AB189398AMD)
3. **07/20/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893&version=20170AB189396CHP)
4. **AB1893** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893)
5. **07/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1893&version=20170AB189397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1893 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1893 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)
- Acosta — coauthor (person)
- Baker — coauthor (person)
- Beall — principal coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-09** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4782.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-07-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5038.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-07-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-07-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-07-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b7dc731b-0428-4bd6-9de7-30e67e66e2e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).