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Bill	Healing arts: telehealth.	Existing law requires a health care provider, as defined, prior to the delivery of health care services via telehealth, as defined, to verbally inform the patient that telehealth may be used and obtain verbal consent from the patient for this use. Existing law also provides that failure to comply with this requirement constitutes unprofessional conduct.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 809	California AB 809 (20132014)	bill	Healing arts: telehealth.	enacted	Logue	10	31	7	2013-02-21	2014-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/bf3425e5-2b76-4881-bc20-11745660f5d3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB809	4358fcf87bb892305f649f8549857a8d168e8e3c50cc11ab665b33a04cb59710	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 809 (20132014) — Healing arts: telehealth.

Existing law requires a health care provider, as defined, prior to the delivery of health care services via telehealth, as defined, to verbally inform the patient that telehealth may be used and obtain verbal consent from the patient for this use. Existing law also provides that failure to comply with this requirement constitutes unprofessional conduct.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/29/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/25/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/07/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB809 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 809 LOGUE Third Reading Urgency — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Health. — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB809 Logue By Galgiani Urgency Clause — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 809 LOGUE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Logue — primary (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 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
• 2013-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-29 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-30 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2013-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-13 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1383.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-05-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-23 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-08-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-19 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4610.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-20 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6239.)
• 2014-08-20 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6240.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 404, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bf3425e5-2b76-4881-bc20-11745660f5d3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).