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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinics: prenatal screening."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate clinics and health facilities. Existing law generally makes a violation of those licensing provisions a crime. Existing law requires a person or facility that offers a fetal ultrasound, or a similar procedure, for keepsake or entertainment purposes, to disclose to a client prior to performing the procedure, in writing, a specified statement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1720"
citation: "California AB 1720 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clinics", "prenatal screening"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4dad5745-c7f2-4262-94ff-4090a2bb589a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720"
source_hash: "55437bc3c38281a3fb786769815e9c16d86305cffd79fdfedca6a309654bba20"
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 1720 (20232024) — Clinics: prenatal screening.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate clinics and health facilities. Existing law generally makes a violation of those licensing provisions a crime. Existing law requires a person or facility that offers a fetal ultrasound, or a similar procedure, for keepsake or entertainment purposes, to disclose to a client prior to performing the procedure, in writing, a specified statement.
## 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=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172099INT)
2. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172098AMD)
3. **04/24/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172097AMD)
4. **06/19/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172096AMD)
5. **07/06/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172095AMD)
6. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172094AMD)
7. **09/08/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172093AMD)
8. **09/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172091CHP)
9. **AB1720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720)
10. **09/18/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1720&version=20230AB172092ENR)
## Votes
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **92** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **102** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1720 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Skinner — **318** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **82** (pass) · lower
- AB 1720 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6217** (pass) · lower
- AB 1720 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — **710** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2023-03-23** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-04-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1492.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2023-06-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2718.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2023-09-13** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-13** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3436.)
- **2023-09-13** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (September 13). `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 17. Page 3530.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 259, 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/4dad5745-c7f2-4262-94ff-4090a2bb589a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).