republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1731.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Newborn screening program: critical congenital heart disease."
description: "Existing law provides for the Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, Tracking, and Intervention program, under which general acute care hospitals with licensed perinatal services, as specified, are required to administer to newborns a hearing screening test for the identification of hearing loss, as prescribed, using protocols developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, or its designee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1731"
citation: "California AB 1731 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Newborn screening program: critical congenital heart disease."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Block"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2012-02-16"
last_action: "2012-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5f5358a-858d-4bb3-8358-4f5f6af9dfda"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731"
source_hash: "4f5198e9220237e57198cb8266db68b7bcca0cd107b1c48fac277e0f4321a220"
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 1731 (20112012) — Newborn screening program: critical congenital heart disease.

Existing law provides for the Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening, Tracking, and Intervention program, under which general acute care hospitals with licensed perinatal services, as specified, are required to administer to newborns a hearing screening test for the identification of hearing loss, as prescribed, using protocols developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, or its designee.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173199INT)
2. **04/09/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173198AMD)
3. **04/24/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173197AMD)
4. **05/25/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173196AMD)
5. **07/06/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173195AMD)
6. **08/21/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173194AMD)
7. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173193AMD)
8. **09/15/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173191CHP)
9. **AB1731** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731)
10. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1731&version=20110AB173192ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1731 Block By Alquist — **26–8** (pass) · upper
- AB 1731 BLOCK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **61–19** (pass) · lower
- AB 1731 BLOCK Assembly Third Reading — **62–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **15–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Block — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2012-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 4.) (April 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-24** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 13. Page 5113.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-06-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-07-05** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 4927.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-30** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 19. Page 6681.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 336, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5f5358a-858d-4bb3-8358-4f5f6af9dfda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).