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CA AB45

Bill

Status

Passed

9/26/2025

Primary Sponsor

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits collecting, using, disclosing, selling, sharing, or retaining personal information of individuals physically located at or within 1,850 feet of a family planning center, with exceptions for providing requested services or goods

  • Bans geofencing health care facilities in California to identify/track patients or providers, collect personal information, or send health-related notifications and advertisements, with civil penalties of $25,000 per violation enforced by the Attorney General

  • Allows aggrieved persons or family planning centers to file civil lawsuits for violations, with recovery of three times actual damages plus attorney's fees within three years of discovering the violation

  • Prohibits release of personally identifying research records related to individuals seeking health care services in response to subpoenas or law enforcement requests based on other states' laws interfering with abortion rights or foreign penal civil actions

  • Directs civil penalties collected from geofencing violations to the California Reproductive Justice and Freedom Fund for grants supporting medically accurate reproductive and sexual health education programs

Legislative Description

Privacy: health data: location and research.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 134, Statutes of 2025.

9/26/2025

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/16/2025
Judiciary6/18/2025
Rules6/4/2025
Appropriations4/30/2025
Judiciary4/23/2025
Privacy and Consumer Protection3/28/2025

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