---
type: "Bill"
title: "Advance health care directives: registry."
description: "Advance health care directives: registry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2445"
citation: "California AB 2445 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advance health care directives: registry."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Canciamilla"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2004-02-19"
last_action: "2004-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26e14ebc-e0bf-4367-9909-15c49bbc16ed"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445"
source_hash: "b2354b118d9a3e34199ad85395f425a77b2f786c02657fdfccb9d8b9aaf04a05"
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 2445 (20032004) — Advance health care directives: registry.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244599INT)
2. **04/01/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244598AMD)
3. **04/12/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244597AMD)
4. **04/27/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244596AMD)
5. **06/22/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244595AMD)
6. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244594AMD)
7. **09/29/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244592CHP)
8. **AB2445** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445)
9. **08/26/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2445&version=20030AB244593ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab2445 canciamilla by perata — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2445 canciamilla assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Canciamilla — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 882, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7802.) Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 7823.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-24** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 5258.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-07-29** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-06-22** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Corrected July 27. ). `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-21** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 27. Page 5732.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-03-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Health and Standing Committee on Transportation. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2004-02-19** 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/26e14ebc-e0bf-4367-9909-15c49bbc16ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).