republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1099.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to administer a statewide program for prenatal testing for genetic disorders and birth defects, including, but not limited to, ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, and blood testing. Existing law requires the department to expand prenatal screening to include all tests that meet or exceed the current standard of care as recommended by national recognized medical or genetic organizations. Existing law requires the department to set guidelines for invoicing, charging, and collecting fee amounts from approved researchers in order to cover the costs of, among other things, data linkage, retrieval, and data processing. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Birth Defects Monitoring Program Fund, consisting of fees paid for prenatal screening, and states the intent of the Legislature that all costs of the genetic disease testing program be fully supported by fees paid for prenatal screening tests, which are deposited in the fund. Existing law requires funds to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in order to support pregnancy blood sample storage, testing, and research activities of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1099"
citation: "California SB 1099 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Newborn screening", "blood samples collected", "genetic diseases"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nguyen"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b01ff22c-e23a-454a-bb0a-75ebcd252b6c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099"
source_hash: "0f3dad2d7486a76f909348c7bb1a5181489c985657e504012b66135c63da8d80"
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 SB 1099 (20232024) — Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to administer a statewide program for prenatal testing for genetic disorders and birth defects, including, but not limited to, ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, and blood testing. Existing law requires the department to expand prenatal screening to include all tests that meet or exceed the current standard of care as recommended by national recognized medical or genetic organizations. Existing law requires the department to set guidelines for invoicing, charging, and collecting fee amounts from approved researchers in order to cover the costs of, among other things, data linkage, retrieval, and data processing. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Birth Defects Monitoring Program Fund, consisting of fees paid for prenatal screening, and states the intent of the Legislature that all costs of the genetic disease testing program be fully supported by fees paid for prenatal screening tests, which are deposited in the fund. Existing law requires funds to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in order to support pregnancy blood sample storage, testing, and research activities of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109999INT)
2. **04/16/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109998AMD)
3. **06/11/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109997AMD)
4. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109996AMD)
5. **09/25/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109994CHP)
6. **SB1099** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099)
7. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1099&version=20230SB109995ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1099 Nguyen Senate Third Reading By Sanchez — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nguyen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
- **2024-02-21** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2024-04-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** April 24 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-04-18** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2024-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3702.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3872.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-20** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-06** June 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-06-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-19** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6507.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5613.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 598, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b01ff22c-e23a-454a-bb0a-75ebcd252b6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).