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Bill	Medical information: disclosure: medical examiners and forensic pathologists.	(1) Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan without first obtaining an authorization. The act, as exceptions to this prohibition, requires disclosure of medical information by a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor to a coroner when requested by the coroner in the course of investigation for specified purposes, and authorizes disclosure when requested by the coroner in the course of investigation for any other purpose. Under existing law, medical information obtained in the course of providing certain services to specified persons is confidential and not subject to disclosure under these exceptions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2119	California AB 2119 (20152016)	bill	Medical information: disclosure: medical examiners and forensic pathologists.	enacted	Chu	8	24	8	2016-02-17	2016-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/65b87387-9566-4f06-a81c-855809b1adbc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2119	ca83d21637a75d25eadc37d90bd283ce1dc7cbcf15de620c09632f839ab6d3a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2119 (20152016) — Medical information: disclosure: medical examiners and forensic pathologists.

(1) Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan without first obtaining an authorization. The act, as exceptions to this prohibition, requires disclosure of medical information by a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor to a coroner when requested by the coroner in the course of investigation for specified purposes, and authorizes disclosure when requested by the coroner in the course of investigation for any other purpose. Under existing law, medical information obtained in the course of providing certain services to specified persons is confidential and not subject to disclosure under these exceptions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/02/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/27/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2119 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2119 Chu By Beall — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2119 CHU Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2119 CHU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2016-02-29 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4785.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5247.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6292.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/65b87387-9566-4f06-a81c-855809b1adbc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).