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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health providers: medical chaperones."
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description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities and clinics. Existing law generally makes a violation of those provisions a crime."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 849"
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citation: "California AB 849 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Healthproviders", "medicalchaperones"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Soria"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-19"
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last_action: "2025-10-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37fb93ec-e952-42b8-9a89-90bcde0d0d2c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849"
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source_hash: "f8a0596ae0453726a42f5a387f111081a187c7b5fcf6fb1b70a3fa941c510ba9"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 849 (20252026) — Health providers: medical chaperones.
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Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities and clinics. Existing law generally makes a violation of those provisions a crime.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84999INT)
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2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84998AMD)
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3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84997AMD)
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4. **07/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84996AMD)
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5. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84995AMD)
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6. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84994AMD)
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7. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84993AMD)
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8. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84991CHP)
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9. **AB849** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849)
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10. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB849&version=20250AB84992ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB849 Soria et al. By Caballero — **37–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 849 Soria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–1** (pass) · lower
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- AB 849 Soria Assembly Third Reading — **64–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Soria — primary (person)
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- Krell — coauthor (person)
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- Rubio — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-30** Coauthors revised.
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- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2025-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)
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- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 1908.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-07-17** 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`
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- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2923.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3380.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 442, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37fb93ec-e952-42b8-9a89-90bcde0d0d2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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