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type: "Bill"
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title: "Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund."
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description: "Existing law establishes an Office of Health Equity in the State Department of Public Health for purposes of aligning state resources, decisionmaking, and programs to accomplish certain goals related to health equity and protecting vulnerable communities. Existing law requires the office to develop department-wide plans to close the gaps in health status and access to care among the state's diverse racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning communities, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 2218"
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citation: "California AB 2218 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2020-02-12"
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last_action: "2020-09-26"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ea2b313-059e-46c0-ab6d-5d4c2a15252e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218"
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source_hash: "7793a0ab5637a2ad3a26c230b3931ed9d8b40eed32aa8fecd9d079efbea7f181"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2218 (20192020) — Transgender Wellness and Equity Fund.
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Existing law establishes an Office of Health Equity in the State Department of Public Health for purposes of aligning state resources, decisionmaking, and programs to accomplish certain goals related to health equity and protecting vulnerable communities. Existing law requires the office to develop department-wide plans to close the gaps in health status and access to care among the state's diverse racial and ethnic communities, women, persons with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning communities, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/12/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221899INT)
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2. **05/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221898AMD)
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3. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221897AMD)
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4. **08/20/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221896AMD)
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5. **09/26/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221894CHP)
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6. **AB2218** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218)
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7. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2218&version=20190AB221895ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–1** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · upper
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- AB 2218 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — **59–13** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2218 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **54–10** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB2218 Santiago et al. By Wiener — **28–9** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Santiago — primary (person)
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- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
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- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
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- Lena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
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- **2020-02-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-05-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-05-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (May 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 13. Page 4787.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (August 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2020-08-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2020-08-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2020-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 4434.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2020-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 10. Page 5361.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
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- **2020-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2020.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ea2b313-059e-46c0-ab6d-5d4c2a15252e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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