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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Living organ donation."
+description: "Existing law, the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act, requires a private employer to permit an employee to take a leave of absence with pay, not exceeding 30 business days in a one-year period, for the purpose of organ donation. Existing law requires a public employer to permit a public employee to take a similar paid leave of absence for organ donation, if the employee has exhausted all available sick leave."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 1223"
+citation: "California AB 1223 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Living organ donation."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arambula"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-02-21"
+last_action: "2019-09-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dd3d467-f160-4a20-a32b-507ff6fb4a9c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223"
+source_hash: "f0f18d9354fbc083a05335d660686e2c298aad0321b1b89c6ec6f938bcfaadd2"
+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 1223 (20192020) — Living organ donation.
+
+Existing law, the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act, requires a private employer to permit an employee to take a leave of absence with pay, not exceeding 30 business days in a one-year period, for the purpose of organ donation. Existing law requires a public employer to permit a public employee to take a similar paid leave of absence for organ donation, if the employee has exhausted all available sick leave.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223&version=20190AB122399INT)
+2. **04/10/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223&version=20190AB122398AMD)
+3. **05/06/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223&version=20190AB122397AMD)
+4. **09/20/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223&version=20190AB122395CHP)
+5. **AB1223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223)
+6. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223&version=20190AB122396ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1223 Aguiar-Curry Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB1223 Arambula et al. By Rubio — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1223 Arambula Concurrence Vote: Final Form — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arambula — primary (person)
+- Aguiar-Curry — author (person)
+- Flora — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
+- **2019-03-11** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and INS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on INS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1593.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-22** Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and INS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on INS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2440.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-03** In Assembly.
+- **2019-09-03** Vote on concurrence in final form pending.
+- **2019-09-05** Bill in its final form passes.
+- **2019-09-05** (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3033.)
+- **2019-09-05** Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2019-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 316, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4dd3d467-f160-4a20-a32b-507ff6fb4a9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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