Bill dossier · California 2025–26 session · session closed September 30, 2026
Current through · Last editorial review October 1, 2026 · Original snapshot September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PT (archived below)
AB 1956: Suicide prevention: boys and young men as a focus population
Final status · recorded October 1, 2026
SIGNED AUGUST 28, 2026AB 1956 was signed on August 28, 2026. Operative: Per text. It is law; the chaptered text is the controlling version. Source: California 2026 Final Legislative Ledger.
Archived snapshot — originally current through September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PTPreserved as originally published. Superseded by the final status above; lifecycle language, deadlines and “pending” states in this section describe the record as it stood on that date, not the current state. The dossier body below (what the bill does, legislative history, analysis and “what happens next”) is the September record.
Bill
AB 1956 (2025-2026)
Internal identity
CA|2025-2026|AB1956
Author
Valencia
Lifecycle
SIGNED 28 AUGUST 2026 — CHAPTER NUMBER NOT YET RECORDED
Where it sits
Statute — chaptered text to be read
Last recorded action
August 28, 2026
Recorded vote
—
Enrollment
ENROLLED AND PRESENTED
Governor
Signed 28 August 2026
Urgency
None recorded
Chapter
Not applicable
Verification
VERIFIED
Governor deadline
None recorded
Verified
September 15, 2026
Latest recorded action
August 28, 2026. Approved by the Governor.
What the bill does
Amends Health and Safety Code § 131300 so that the Office of Suicide Prevention's youth activities may pay special attention to boys, and adds young men to the list of highest-risk groups on which the office may focus. Requires the office, on or before 1 July 2028, to report to the Legislature on strategies to implement those activities.
What it does not do
The statute is permissive: the office may focus on these groups. It does not create a duty of care, a clinical standard, or an appropriation. Chapter number and operative date are not stated here because the chaptered text was not read.
KPSGILL position
No position taken. Crisis-line measurement is analysed in the 988 analysis: what happens after a contact, not answer rates alone.
Open verification items
Named here rather than answered with an assumption.
- Chapter number and operative date from the chaptered text / Secretary of State
What happens next
Every qualifying measure is tracked on the Governor’s Health Bill Desk; scheduled dates sit on the decision calendar.
Primary sources
Register: the record store · internal identity CA|2025-2026|AB1956 · verification state VERIFIED · tracker: California Legislature 2026.