---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health information."
description: "Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 352"
citation: "California AB 352 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health information"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9bebdec-f6a3-482d-9700-f3a469626993"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352"
source_hash: "ee81379ec791fcbbd6dca37c291635055f5dd18e8e9fe8cd805a813336cd697d"
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 352 (20232024) — Health information.

Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/31/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35299INT)
2. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35298AMD)
3. **05/18/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35297AMD)
4. **09/08/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35296AMD)
5. **09/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35294CHP)
6. **AB352** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352)
7. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB352&version=20230AB35295ENR)

## Votes

- AB 352 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **64–12** (pass) · lower
- AB 352 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **64–14** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB352 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Atkins — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **10–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2023-03-23** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 12. Page 2000.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-14** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 2702.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2023-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 14. Page 3529.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2023-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 255, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9bebdec-f6a3-482d-9700-f3a469626993`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).