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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medical records: electronic delivery."
+description: "Existing law requires certain enumerated medical providers and medical employers to make a patient's records available for inspection and copying by an attorney, or his or her representative, who presents a written authorization therefor, as specified."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 1337"
+citation: "California AB 1337 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Medical records: electronic delivery."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Linder"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2015-02-27"
+last_action: "2015-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cfa0f49-262c-4b5b-aa37-1ab5b5b0b1f3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337"
+source_hash: "32e44d0fbd32f72eaf1eda2e9bc58c04269d76e0b29ab061b8d60bee1caf421e"
+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 1337 (20152016) — Medical records: electronic delivery.
+
+Existing law requires certain enumerated medical providers and medical employers to make a patient's records available for inspection and copying by an attorney, or his or her representative, who presents a written authorization therefor, as specified.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133799INT)
+2. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133798AMD)
+3. **06/22/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133797AMD)
+4. **07/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133796AMD)
+5. **10/06/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133794CHP)
+6. **AB1337** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337)
+7. **08/26/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1337&version=20150AB133795ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1337 LINDER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1337 LINDER Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Linder — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
+- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
+- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1344.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-21** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-06-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2015-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2116.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2015-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2561.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2015-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 528, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cfa0f49-262c-4b5b-aa37-1ab5b5b0b1f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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