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Bill	Clinics: prenatal screening.	Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate clinics and health facilities. Existing law generally makes a violation of those licensing provisions a crime. Existing law requires a person or facility that offers a fetal ultrasound, or a similar procedure, for keepsake or entertainment purposes, to disclose to a client prior to performing the procedure, in writing, a specified statement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1720	California AB 1720 (20232024)	bill	Clinics prenatal screening	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	10	36	9	2023-02-17	2023-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4dad5745-c7f2-4262-94ff-4090a2bb589a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720	55437bc3c38281a3fb786769815e9c16d86305cffd79fdfedca6a309654bba20	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1720 (20232024) — Clinics: prenatal screening.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate clinics and health facilities. Existing law generally makes a violation of those licensing provisions a crime. Existing law requires a person or facility that offers a fetal ultrasound, or a similar procedure, for keepsake or entertainment purposes, to disclose to a client prior to performing the procedure, in writing, a specified statement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/24/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/27/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1720 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/18/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 10–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1720 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Skinner — 31–8 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1720 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–17 (pass) · lower
• AB 1720 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-23 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 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
• 2023-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-04-24 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
• 2023-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1492.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-06-19 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
• 2023-06-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-06-20 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-06 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
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-14 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2718.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2023-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3436.)
• 2023-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (September 13). committee-passage
• 2023-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 17. Page 3530.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2023-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 259, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4dad5745-c7f2-4262-94ff-4090a2bb589a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).