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Bill	Medical information: confidentiality.	Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, prohibits specified entities from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, unless a specified exception applies. Existing law, with specified exceptions, prohibits an employer from using, disclosing, or knowingly permitting its employees or agents to use or disclose medical information that the employer possesses pertaining to its employees without the prescribed permission of the patient. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law, the Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act, generally regulates how insurers collect, use, and disclose information gathered in connection with insurance transactions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1184	California AB 1184 (20212022)	bill	Medical information: confidentiality.	enacted	Chiu	8	26	8	2021-02-18	2021-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/e8a4036a-07c9-4952-b3b9-85b82711eaa0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1184	d16d802575db482e7f31ba721e9d03c4ab18069b28e0fda1dbf8e3e258b11349	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1184 (20212022) — Medical information: confidentiality.

Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, prohibits specified entities from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, unless a specified exception applies. Existing law, with specified exceptions, prohibits an employer from using, disclosing, or knowingly permitting its employees or agents to use or disclose medical information that the employer possesses pertaining to its employees without the prescribed permission of the patient. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law, the Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act, generally regulates how insurers collect, use, and disclose information gathered in connection with insurance transactions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1184 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1184 Chiu et al. By Leyva — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• AB 1184 Chiu Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 1184 Chiu Assembly Third Reading — 59–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-25 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 13. Page 1402.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-27 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2486.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 14. Page 2996.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 190, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e8a4036a-07c9-4952-b3b9-85b82711eaa0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).