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Bill	Living organ donation.	Existing law, the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act, requires a private employer to permit an employee to take a leave of absence with pay, not exceeding 30 business days in a one-year period, for the purpose of organ donation. Existing law requires a public employer to permit a public employee to take a similar paid leave of absence for organ donation, if the employee has exhausted all available sick leave.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1223	California AB 1223 (20192020)	bill	Living organ donation.	enacted	Arambula	6	26	8	2019-02-21	2019-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/4dd3d467-f160-4a20-a32b-507ff6fb4a9c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1223	f0f18d9354fbc083a05335d660686e2c298aad0321b1b89c6ec6f938bcfaadd2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1223 (20192020) — Living organ donation.

Existing law, the Michelle Maykin Memorial Donation Protection Act, requires a private employer to permit an employee to take a leave of absence with pay, not exceeding 30 business days in a one-year period, for the purpose of organ donation. Existing law requires a public employer to permit a public employee to take a similar paid leave of absence for organ donation, if the employee has exhausted all available sick leave.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/06/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/20/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1223 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1223 Aguiar-Curry Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1223 Arambula et al. By Rubio — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1223 Arambula Concurrence Vote: Final Form — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — author (person)
• Flora — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2019-03-11 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1593.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and INS. referral-committee
• 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on INS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-07-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2440.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Assembly.
• 2019-09-03 Vote on concurrence in final form pending.
• 2019-09-05 Bill in its final form passes.
• 2019-09-05 (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3033.)
• 2019-09-05 Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2019-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 316, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4dd3d467-f160-4a20-a32b-507ff6fb4a9c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).