---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer."
description: "Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires a physician and surgeon examining a patient's prostate gland during a physical examination to provide the patient with specified information if certain conditions are present."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1621"
citation: "California AB 1621 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Halderman"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2012-02-08"
last_action: "2012-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4af27734-a616-47d6-a77f-4f004eafd5ae"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1621"
source_hash: "8b43f495e82381bac5bed6ee01d481146b82c4d6f1382daf1fd255f3fcf039a3"
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 1621 (20112012) — Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law requires a physician and surgeon examining a patient's prostate gland during a physical examination to provide the patient with specified information if certain conditions are present.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1621&version=20110AB162199INT)
2. **07/10/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1621&version=20110AB162197CHP)
3. **AB1621** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1621)
4. **06/26/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1621&version=20110AB162198ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1621 HALDERMAN Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #13 — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Halderman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2012-02-23** Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-03-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-04-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4244.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-04-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-04-19** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-31** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-06-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-06-20** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4057.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-06-25** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2012-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 76, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4af27734-a616-47d6-a77f-4f004eafd5ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).