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Bill	Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinics, including primary care clinics and specialty clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law excludes certain facilities from those provisions, including a clinic that is operated by a primary care community or free clinic and that is operated on separate premises from the licensed clinic and is only open for limited services of no more than 40 hours a week, also referred to as an intermittent clinic.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 779	California SB 779 (20232024)	bill	Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act	enacted	Stern	9	32	9	2023-02-17	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/7a32fdc3-d127-4bab-851f-187fedb41f57	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779	de9259229e07c3788d235440f9808afb988a9fb7468e9bae25ee85ad946043c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 779 (20232024) — Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinics, including primary care clinics and specialty clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law excludes certain facilities from those provisions, including a clinic that is operated by a primary care community or free clinic and that is operated on separate premises from the licensed clinic and is only open for limited services of no more than 40 hours a week, also referred to as an intermittent clinic.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/30/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/17/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB779 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 779 Stern Senate Third Reading By Ortega — 48–17 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB779 Stern et al. Concurrence — 24–10 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB779 Stern et al. — 26–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• SB 779 Stern Senate Third Reading By Ortega Amendment Set #1 — 57–16 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2023-03-01 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2023-03-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 711.) (April 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-18 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-21 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2023-05-01 May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1183.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 1385.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-15 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 16. Page 3123.)
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 57. Noes 16. Page 3124.) amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 17. Page 3400.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-13 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 2844.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 505, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a32fdc3-d127-4bab-851f-187fedb41f57. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).