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Bill	Confidentiality of medical information: psychotherapy.	Existing law prohibits providers of health care, health care service plans, and contractors from releasing medical information to persons authorized by law to receive that information if the information specifically relates to a patient's participation in outpatient treatment with a psychotherapist, unless the requester of the information submits a specified written request for the information to the patient and to the provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor. However, existing law excepts from those provisions specified disclosures that are made for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of a patient.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 681	California AB 681 (20092010)	bill	Confidentiality of medical information: psychotherapy.	enacted	Hernandez	6	30	8	2009-02-26	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/19e59c41-8f44-4cc3-9401-6bcf8287dc9a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB681	b3aa073bb1e0258ab637e9ae18e9f88afd4162fa4ad37932e60109a14c5c0b13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 681 (20092010) — Confidentiality of medical information: psychotherapy.

Existing law prohibits providers of health care, health care service plans, and contractors from releasing medical information to persons authorized by law to receive that information if the information specifically relates to a patient's participation in outpatient treatment with a psychotherapist, unless the requester of the information submits a specified written request for the information to the patient and to the provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor. However, existing law excepts from those provisions specified disclosures that are made for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment of a patient.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/24/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB681 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 681 HERNANDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #11 AB681 Hernandez — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 681 HERNANDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 681 HERNANDEZ Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #17 AB681 Hernandez By Corbett — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2009-03-23 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-04-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-06 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1368.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-23 Read second time, amended, and to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-25 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-06-29 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1519.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-07-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2385.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-07-24 Withdrawn from Enrollment.
• 2009-07-24 Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments.
• 2009-07-24 Ordered returned to Senate.
• 2009-08-20 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2009-08-24 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2009-08-24 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-08-25 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-26 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-08-31 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2023.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-02 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2889.)
• 2009-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2926.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-08 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 464, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19e59c41-8f44-4cc3-9401-6bcf8287dc9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).