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Bill	Medical records: confidential information.	The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act requires that every provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, and contractor who creates, maintains, preserves, stores, abandons, destroys, or disposes of medical records do so in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of the information contained in the record, and provides that negligence in conducting these activities may result in damages or an administrative fine or civil penalty, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 850	California SB 850 (20112012)	bill	Medical records: confidential information.	enacted	Leno	7	23	7	2011-02-18	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/fdafcc73-c867-4836-9e8e-e9693ed119c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB850	237d6c950b71624b2d90bc704f0bccdf11fc7d9afba569c48afcef6b4cba52db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 850 (20112012) — Medical records: confidential information.

The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act requires that every provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, and contractor who creates, maintains, preserves, stores, abandons, destroys, or disposes of medical records do so in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of the information contained in the record, and provides that negligence in conducting these activities may result in damages or an administrative fine or civil penalty, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/02/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB850 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 850 Leno Senate Third Reading By MONNING — 58–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 21–15 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB850 Leno Concurrence — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Leno — 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.
• 2011-03-10 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-04-29 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2011-05-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2. Page 951.) (May 10). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 15. Page 1178.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-01 Read third time and amended. (Page 2770.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 2990.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 2425.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 714, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fdafcc73-c867-4836-9e8e-e9693ed119c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).