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Bill	Health care coverage: abortion services: cost sharing.	Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person. The act defines "abortion" as a medical treatment intended to induce the termination of a pregnancy except for the purpose of producing a live birth.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 245	California SB 245 (20212022)	bill	Health care coverage: abortion services: cost sharing.	enacted	Gonzalez	6	32	9	2021-01-22	2022-03-22	openstates	ocd-bill/068b1e86-938a-412c-bfe7-6af5d18ad936	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB245	51f2ca376df80539524a6d13c3a2f56c817766d646fdfee2b903127db0977a59	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 245 (20212022) — Health care coverage: abortion services: cost sharing.

Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person. The act defines "abortion" as a medical treatment intended to induce the termination of a pregnancy except for the purpose of producing a live birth.

Version chain

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

1. 01/22/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/14/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/12/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. SB245 (committee substitute) — source
6. 03/21/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB245 Gonzalez et al. — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB245 Gonzalez et al. Concurrence — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 245 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Akilah Weber — 52–17 (pass) · lower
• SB 245 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By Akilah Weber Amendment Set #1 — 50–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Akilah Weber — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Burke — coauthor (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Irwin — coauthor (person)
• Kamlager — principal coauthor (person)
• Leyva — principal coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Mia Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Mullin — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-01-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
• 2021-01-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-17 Set for hearing April 7.
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 703.) (April 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1184.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 1330.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-25 June 30 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-07-07 July 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 August 26 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-01-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (January 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-02-14 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 50. Noes 17. Page 3542.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-02-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-03-17 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 17. Page 3878.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-03-17 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-03-21 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 3159.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2022-03-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-03-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 11, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/068b1e86-938a-412c-bfe7-6af5d18ad936. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).