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Bill Patient access to health records. (1) Existing law generally governs a patient's access to his or her health records. Existing law requires a health care provider to provide any patient, former patient, or the representative of a patient or former patient a copy, at no charge, of the relevant portion of the patient's health records upon presenting to the health care provider a written request and proof that the health records are needed to support an appeal regarding eligibility for specified public benefit programs. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by certain health care providers an infraction. us/states/ca California Legislature 20172018 SB 575 California SB 575 (20172018)
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California SB 575 (20172018) — Patient access to health records.

(1) Existing law generally governs a patient's access to his or her health records. Existing law requires a health care provider to provide any patient, former patient, or the representative of a patient or former patient a copy, at no charge, of the relevant portion of the patient's health records upon presenting to the health care provider a written request and proof that the health records are needed to support an appeal regarding eligibility for specified public benefit programs. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by certain health care providers an infraction.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 04/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  3. 09/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  4. 10/09/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  5. SB575 (committee substitute) — source
  6. 09/20/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

  • Leyva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
  • 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
  • 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
  • 2017-03-10 Set for hearing March 29.
  • 2017-03-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 559.) (March 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
  • 2017-04-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
  • 2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 25.
  • 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 853.) (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 33. Noes 5. Page 1068.) 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. (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. (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.
  • 2017-09-07 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 3397.) 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 36. Noes 2. Page 2996.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
  • 2017-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  • 2017-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2017-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 626, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1af5fc7-8741-446c-b2a4-0d75bf356a06. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).