republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-1312.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital pricing."
description: "Existing law requires a hospital to provide patients with a written notice containing information about the availability of the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and the contact information for a hospital employee or office from which a person may obtain further information about these policies. Existing law defines \"charity care\" and \"discount payment\" for these purposes. Existing law requires a hospital to provide to the Department of Health Care Access and Information a copy of its discount payment policy, charity care policy, eligibility procedures for those policies, review process, and the application for charity care or discounted payment programs, among other information. A violation of these provisions results in an administrative penalty, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1312"
citation: "California AB 1312 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitalpricing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schiavo"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09489d95-05ee-4ba5-b449-bcda5daee977"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312"
source_hash: "d2bf4573c05e5509866e453e31eb70511384b7ddeb4b6eaa83d251be95bbca49"
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 1312 (20252026) — Hospital pricing.

Existing law requires a hospital to provide patients with a written notice containing information about the availability of the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and the contact information for a hospital employee or office from which a person may obtain further information about these policies. Existing law defines "charity care" and "discount payment" for these purposes. Existing law requires a hospital to provide to the Department of Health Care Access and Information a copy of its discount payment policy, charity care policy, eligibility procedures for those policies, review process, and the application for charity care or discounted payment programs, among other information. A violation of these provisions results in an administrative penalty, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131299INT)
2. **05/01/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131298AMD)
3. **07/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131297AMD)
4. **07/21/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131296AMD)
5. **09/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131295AMD)
6. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131293CHP)
7. **AB1312** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312)
8. **09/11/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1312&version=20250AB131294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 1312 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — **51–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1312 Schiavo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **62–16** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1312 Schiavo By Pérez — **27–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Schiavo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (April 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **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 51. Noes 16. Page 1933.) `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 Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-21** 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: 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`
- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 8. Page 2625.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 3123.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 450, 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/09489d95-05ee-4ba5-b449-bcda5daee977`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).