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Bill	Medical records: access.	Existing law governs a patient's access to his or her health records. Existing law requires a health care provider to provide a patient or his or her representative with all or any part of the patient's medical records that the patient has a right to inspect, subject to the payment of clerical costs incurred in locating and making the records available, following a written request from the patient. If the patient or patient's representative presents proof to the provider that the records are needed to support an appeal regarding eligibility for a public benefit program, as defined, the health care provider must provide one copy of the relevant portion of the patient's record at no charge under specified circumstances. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by specified health care providers an infraction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 241	California SB 241 (20172018)	bill	Medical records: access.	enacted	Monning	6	35	8	2017-02-06	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/8b64ace7-17ed-492a-b4fe-b5aa2bcdf654	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB241	038ac105be8e09a0e9188f07b908b8ae3ce4779432d7692b3d14547032cf386d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 241 (20172018) — Medical records: access.

Existing law governs a patient's access to his or her health records. Existing law requires a health care provider to provide a patient or his or her representative with all or any part of the patient's medical records that the patient has a right to inspect, subject to the payment of clerical costs incurred in locating and making the records available, following a written request from the patient. If the patient or patient's representative presents proof to the provider that the records are needed to support an appeal regarding eligibility for a public benefit program, as defined, the health care provider must provide one copy of the relevant portion of the patient's record at no charge under specified circumstances. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by specified health care providers an infraction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/31/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/05/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB241 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 241 Monning Senate Third Reading By LIMÓN — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB241 Monning Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Monning — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-06 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-07 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
• 2017-02-16 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-16 Set for hearing March 29.
• 2017-03-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 558.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 851.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2017-05-03 May 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1066.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-03 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bonta.
• 2017-07-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-07-06 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bonta.
• 2017-08-28 Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2017-08-29 From inactive file.
• 2017-08-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-08-31 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3404.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2994.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 513, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8b64ace7-17ed-492a-b4fe-b5aa2bcdf654. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).