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Bill	Hospital pricing.	Existing law requires a hospital to provide patients with a written notice containing information about the availability of the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and the contact information for a hospital employee or office from which a person may obtain further information about these policies. Existing law defines "charity care" and "discount payment" for these purposes. Existing law requires a hospital to provide to the Department of Health Care Access and Information a copy of its discount payment policy, charity care policy, eligibility procedures for those policies, review process, and the application for charity care or discounted payment programs, among other information. A violation of these provisions results in an administrative penalty, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1312	California AB 1312 (20252026)	bill	Hospitalpricing	enacted	Schiavo	8	27	8	2025-02-21	2025-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/09489d95-05ee-4ba5-b449-bcda5daee977	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312	d2bf4573c05e5509866e453e31eb70511384b7ddeb4b6eaa83d251be95bbca49	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1312 (20252026) — Hospital pricing.

Existing law requires a hospital to provide patients with a written notice containing information about the availability of the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and the contact information for a hospital employee or office from which a person may obtain further information about these policies. Existing law defines "charity care" and "discount payment" for these purposes. Existing law requires a hospital to provide to the Department of Health Care Access and Information a copy of its discount payment policy, charity care policy, eligibility procedures for those policies, review process, and the application for charity care or discounted payment programs, among other information. A violation of these provisions results in an administrative penalty, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/21/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1312 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• AB 1312 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — 51–16 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1312 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–16 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1312 Schiavo By Pérez — 27–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Schiavo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1933.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-07-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 2625.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 3123.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 450, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/09489d95-05ee-4ba5-b449-bcda5daee977. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).