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Bill	Health care decisions: decisionmakers and surrogates.	Existing law authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction and to designate a health care decisionmaker, including an agent designated in a power of attorney to make health care decisions on the person's behalf. Existing law also authorizes a patient to designate an adult as a surrogate to make health care decisions by personally informing the supervising health care provider. Existing law authorizes a patient to disqualify a person, including a family member, from acting as the patient's surrogate.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2338	California AB 2338 (20212022)	bill	Health care decisions: decisionmakers and surrogates.	enacted	Gipson	7	24	6	2022-02-16	2022-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/4286cf93-4dc9-4ed9-9b18-9795ecfe0ba9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2338	b5ee708b7bba0ff59a6abdc0d430a66c975ef0db6db5313c87352bf11a5d29c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2338 (20212022) — Health care decisions: decisionmakers and surrogates.

Existing law authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction and to designate a health care decisionmaker, including an agent designated in a power of attorney to make health care decisions on the person's behalf. Existing law also authorizes a patient to designate an adult as a surrogate to make health care decisions by personally informing the supervising health care provider. Existing law authorizes a patient to disqualify a person, including a family member, from acting as the patient's surrogate.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2338 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2338 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2338 Gipson By Kamlager — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2338 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 63–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-03-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-24 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-04-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-04-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 0. Page 4819.) 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
• 2022-06-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4902.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5984.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 782, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4286cf93-4dc9-4ed9-9b18-9795ecfe0ba9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).