republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1666.md

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Bill	Abortion: civil actions.	Existing law provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with the right to choose or obtain an abortion before the fetus is viable, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person. Existing law requires an abortion to be performed by a specified licensed or certified health care provider and prohibits an abortion from being performed on a viable fetus if continuation of the pregnancy did not pose a risk to the life or health of the pregnant person.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1666	California AB 1666 (20212022)	bill	Abortion: civil actions.	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	6	20	6	2022-01-19	2022-06-24	openstates	ocd-bill/b820791c-ebc1-49f3-8ebd-cf0535bbd6b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1666	bc1181604468104cd936346a4f3bf8fc98b5a64c50fd6246e4e621418a715d84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1666 (20212022) — Abortion: civil actions.

Existing law provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with the right to choose or obtain an abortion before the fetus is viable, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person. Existing law requires an abortion to be performed by a specified licensed or certified health care provider and prohibits an abortion from being performed on a viable fetus if continuation of the pregnancy did not pose a risk to the life or health of the pregnant person.

Version chain

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

1. 01/19/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1666 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1666 Bauer-Kahan Third Reading Urgency — 56–15 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1666 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading Amendment Set #1 — 49–11 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1666 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Limón Urgency Clause — 29–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
• Bennett — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Bloom — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Min — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Stone — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-01-20 From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
• 2022-01-27 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-03-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-03-16 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (April 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 49. Noes 11. Page 4568.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 15. Page 4827.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-23 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 4394.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-06-23 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2022-06-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2022-06-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-06-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b820791c-ebc1-49f3-8ebd-cf0535bbd6b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).