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type: "Bill"
title: "Privacy: health data: location and research."
description: "Existing law prohibits a person or business, as defined, from collecting, using, disclosing, or retaining the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, as defined, except as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested and prohibits a person or business from selling or sharing this personal information. Existing law authorizes an aggrieved person or entity to institute and prosecute a civil action against a person or business for a violation of these provisions and specifies the damages and costs authorized to be recovered."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 45"
citation: "California AB 45 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy", "healthdata", "locationandresearch"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-12-02"
last_action: "2025-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49546084-5463-4429-b841-84e73f5d2ccf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45"
source_hash: "af46843e94f8a1433a21f37787a5e1de18ff92d5c9b5b8d7f00a051ad21aead7"
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 AB 45 (20252026) — Privacy: health data: location and research.
Existing law prohibits a person or business, as defined, from collecting, using, disclosing, or retaining the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, as defined, except as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested and prohibits a person or business from selling or sharing this personal information. Existing law authorizes an aggrieved person or entity to institute and prosecute a civil action against a person or business for a violation of these provisions and specifies the damages and costs authorized to be recovered.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **12/02/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4599INT)
2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4598AMD)
3. **04/09/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4597AMD)
4. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4596AMD)
5. **09/09/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4595AMD)
6. **09/26/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4593CHP)
7. **AB45** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45)
8. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB45&version=20250AB4594ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **102** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **92** (pass) · lower
- AB 45 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **6311** (pass) · lower
- AB 45 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6112** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **111** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB45 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Menjivar — **299** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **112** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-12-03** From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
- **2025-03-28** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-23** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 11. Page 2022.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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`
- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
- **2025-09-09** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2990.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 12. Page 3469.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 134, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49546084-5463-4429-b841-84e73f5d2ccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).