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Bill	Confidentiality of medical information.	Existing federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) , establishes certain requirements relating to the provision of health insurance, and the protection of privacy of individually identifiable health information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 138	California SB 138 (20132014)	bill	Confidentiality of medical information.	enacted	Hernandez	10	32	10	2013-01-28	2013-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/c0ccdc9a-f4bc-4a80-9195-b6cfe0690a48	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB138	f0302f18ff24f0882d4a8c6da70e84d079d9c4efe3c5f2d1b01894dc056767f0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 138 (20132014) — Confidentiality of medical information.

Existing federal law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) , establishes certain requirements relating to the provision of health insurance, and the protection of privacy of individually identifiable health information.

Version chain

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

1. 01/28/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/01/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB138 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/11/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 138 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By MITCHELL — 51–25 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Health. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 13–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 26–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB138 Hernandez Concurrence — 34–4 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-28 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-01-29 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 28.
• 2013-02-07 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-03-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-03-15 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2013-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 421.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-05 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2013-04-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 567.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-19 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2013-04-29 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1007.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 1164.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-10 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-14 Re-referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-14 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 3012.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 2282.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2013-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 444, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c0ccdc9a-f4bc-4a80-9195-b6cfe0690a48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).