---
type: "Bill"
title: "Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Haven Pilot Program."
description: "Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions, including the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 1245"
citation: "California SB 1245 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Haven Pilot Program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kamlager"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-02-17"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c9db7c8-620b-4d50-a5ce-f074b38a6773"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245"
source_hash: "244695e7f37e6f49b067a07ea8f16f6d83a54b9ef047469f112ef282b609aec1"
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 SB 1245 (20212022) — Los Angeles County Abortion Access Safe Haven Pilot Program.

Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions, including the fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to choose and to obtain an abortion.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124599INT)
2. **03/14/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124598AMD)
3. **05/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124597AMD)
4. **06/29/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124596AMD)
5. **08/25/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124595AMD)
6. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124593CHP)
7. **SB1245** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245)
8. **09/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1245&version=20210SB124594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- SB 1245 Kamlager Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — **54–18** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **8–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB1245 Kamlager et al. — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1245 Kamlager et al. Concurrence — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kamlager — primary (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Friedman — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Nazarian — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-17** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
- **2022-02-18** From printer.
- **2022-03-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-23** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2022-04-05** Set for hearing April 26 in JUD. pending receipt.
- **2022-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 3349.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3514.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3789.) (May 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 3924.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-02** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 3.) (June 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-07-29** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-08-10** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-08-10** August 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2022-08-11** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 5281.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 567, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c9db7c8-620b-4d50-a5ce-f074b38a6773`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).