---
type: "Bill"
title: "Confidentiality of health, medical, or genetic information."
description: "Confidentiality of health, medical, or genetic information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2797"
citation: "California AB 2797 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Confidentiality of health", "medical", "or genetic information."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Papan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2000-02-28"
last_action: "2000-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64c25403-244a-46ef-913d-35b81ff6af82"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797"
source_hash: "937e262c8c3aa1437cd1c2712b316f6b099584dbd62505a11d198f43e80357e2"
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 2797 (19992000) — Confidentiality of health, medical, or genetic information.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/28/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797&version=19990AB279799INT)
2. **05/02/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797&version=19990AB279798AMD)
3. **09/01/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797&version=19990AB279796CHP)
4. **AB2797** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797)
5. **08/18/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2797&version=19990AB279797ENR)

## Votes

- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2797 Papan — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Papan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 278, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-08-31** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-08-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2000-08-18** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2000-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5792.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2000-07-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-25** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6589.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-22** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-18** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-05-04** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-01** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-04-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 24). Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 5913.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-04-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Banking and Finance and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-29** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2000-02-28** Joint Rule 54 suspended. Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64c25403-244a-46ef-913d-35b81ff6af82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).