republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-779.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 779"
citation: "California SB 779 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stern"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a32fdc3-d127-4bab-851f-187fedb41f57"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779"
source_hash: "de9259229e07c3788d235440f9808afb988a9fb7468e9bae25ee85ad946043c1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77999INT)
2. **03/27/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77998AMD)
3. **03/30/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77997AMD)
4. **04/17/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77996AMD)
5. **07/13/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77995AMD)
6. **09/08/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77994AMD)
7. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77992CHP)
8. **SB779** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779)
9. **09/19/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB779&version=20230SB77993ENR)

## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a32fdc3-d127-4bab-851f-187fedb41f57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).