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Bill	Newborn screening program.	Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a program for the development, provision, and evaluation of genetic disease testing.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1559	California AB 1559 (20132014)	bill appropriation	Newborn screening program.	enacted	Pan	8	26	8	2014-01-28	2014-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/99ab3d74-8d4c-4a19-a14b-e93c50870522	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1559	3c0d085294d67d8c5ea6b8b7e5c441c06d928d419b551909d2db2a2fa80f0008	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1559 (20132014) — Newborn screening program.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a program for the development, provision, and evaluation of genetic disease testing.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1559 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1559 Pan By Nielsen — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1559 PAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1559 PAN Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 19–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pan — primary (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Fox — principal coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Gatto — principal coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Wyland — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-01-29 From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) . committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5238.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4837.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-26 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
• 2014-08-26 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6467.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2014-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 565, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/99ab3d74-8d4c-4a19-a14b-e93c50870522. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).