republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2581.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Healing arts: continuing education: maternal mental health."
description: "Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, establishes the Board of Psychology and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of psychologists. Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, establishes the Physician Assistant Board and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of physician assistants."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2581"
citation: "California AB 2581 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Healing arts", "continuing education", "maternal mental health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b69b6cc1-92a8-46ce-8e72-4375e215a575"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581"
source_hash: "fd5ab7414c6ae25f4a4516394a28905171d1f61058d9f02d04649467c79ecac3"
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 2581 (20232024) — Healing arts: continuing education: maternal mental health.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, establishes the Board of Psychology and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of psychologists. Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, establishes the Physician Assistant Board and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure and regulation of physician assistants.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581&version=20230AB258199INT)
2. **04/10/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581&version=20230AB258198AMD)
3. **08/14/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581&version=20230AB258197AMD)
4. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581&version=20230AB258195CHP)
5. **AB2581** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581)
6. **08/28/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2581&version=20230AB258196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2581 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2581 Maienschein et al. By Limón — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2581 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maienschein — primary (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 9). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-10** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-11** 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 5089.) `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 B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-14** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-15** 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 5266.). `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.
- **2024-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6570.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 836, 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/b69b6cc1-92a8-46ce-8e72-4375e215a575`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).