Health care: legally protected health care activity.
(1) Existing law authorizes reproductive health care service providers, employees, volunteers, and patients, and individuals who face threats of violence or violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a reproductive health care services facility, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor.
California AB 82 (20252026) — Health care: legally protected health care activity.
(1) Existing law authorizes reproductive health care service providers, employees, volunteers, and patients, and individuals who face threats of violence or violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a reproductive health care services facility, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant's residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
3rd Reading AB82 Ward et al. By Wiener — 29–8 (pass) · upper
AB 82 Ward Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–12 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
AB 82 Ward Assembly Third Reading — 62–5 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Ward — primary (person)
Arreguín — coauthor (person)
Cabaldon — coauthor (person)
Cervantes — coauthor (person)
Connolly — coauthor (person)
Garcia — coauthor (person)
Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
Jackson — coauthor (person)
Kalra — coauthor (person)
Krell — coauthor (person)
Laird — coauthor (person)
Mark González — coauthor (person)
Rogers — coauthor (person)
Schultz — coauthor (person)
Stefani — coauthor (person)
Wiener — coauthor (person)
Zbur — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-12-20 Introduced. To print. introduction
2024-12-21 From printer. May be heard in committee January 20.
2025-01-06 Read first time. reading-1
2025-03-28 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
2025-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-04-23 Coauthors revised.
2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (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 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
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 62. Noes 5. Page 1896.) 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 Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
2025-06-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-07-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2025-07-10 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-02 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 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2655.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 12. Page 3212.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 679, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f766472f-481f-477f-8d55-9620f9199a27. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).