republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-659.md

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Bill	Immunizations: disclosure of information: tuberculosis screening.	Existing law regulates the sharing of a patient's or client's immunization information between a health care provider, local health department, the State Department of Public Health, and other agencies. Existing law prescribes the process by which a patient or client, or parent or guardian of a patient or client, may refuse to allow the information to be shared and requires the health care provider administering the immunization to provide the patient with designated notice. Existing law permits local health departments and the department to share the name of a patient or client, or parent or guardian of a patient or client, with a state, local health department, health care provider, immunization information system, or any representative of an entity designated by federal or state law to receive this information, and authorizes the department to enter into written agreements to share this information with other states for specified purposes, unless the patient or client, or parent or guardian of the patient or client, refuses to allow the information to be shared. Under existing law, the patient or client, or parent or guardian of the patient or client, has the right to examine shared immunization-related information and to correct errors in it.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 659	California SB 659 (20112012)	bill	Immunizations: disclosure of information: tuberculosis screening.	enacted	Negrete McLeod	8	26	7	2011-02-18	2012-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/74a0425d-6b57-4c73-b243-469fe9a5fdb8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB659	51ec10ababa20fe3824efe2fb7a76e9f2a29eb3138d8c91cdf37ce6a7238fb53	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 659 (20112012) — Immunizations: disclosure of information: tuberculosis screening.

Existing law regulates the sharing of a patient's or client's immunization information between a health care provider, local health department, the State Department of Public Health, and other agencies. Existing law prescribes the process by which a patient or client, or parent or guardian of a patient or client, may refuse to allow the information to be shared and requires the health care provider administering the immunization to provide the patient with designated notice. Existing law permits local health departments and the department to share the name of a patient or client, or parent or guardian of a patient or client, with a state, local health department, health care provider, immunization information system, or any representative of an entity designated by federal or state law to receive this information, and authorizes the department to enter into written agreements to share this information with other states for specified purposes, unless the patient or client, or parent or guardian of the patient or client, refuses to allow the information to be shared. Under existing law, the patient or client, or parent or guardian of the patient or client, has the right to examine shared immunization-related information and to correct errors in it.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/13/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/15/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB659 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Be referred to Committee on Health. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #3 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 659 Negrete McLeod Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB659 Negrete McLeod Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Negrete McLeod — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2011-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2011-04-08 Set for hearing May 4.
• 2011-05-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 859.) (May 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-18 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2011-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1067.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-23 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2011-06-20 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-01-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-01-19 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2012-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-18 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5965.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-16 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-21 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4623.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 267, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74a0425d-6b57-4c73-b243-469fe9a5fdb8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).