California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB1979: Health care services: artificial intelligence.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to add Chapter 25.5 (commencing with Section 22758.5) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 56.05 and 56.06 of the Civil Code, relating to health care services. health care services Health care services: artificial intelligence…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to add Chapter 25.5 (commencing with Section 22758.5) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 56.05 and 56.06 of the Civil Code, relating to health care services. health care services Health care services: artificial intelligence. (1) The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, or a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions that results in economic loss or personal injury punishable as a misdemeanor. Existing law deems a business that offers a mental health digital service or reproductive or sexual health digital service to a consumer for the purpose of allowing the individual to manage the individual’s information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of the individual, to be a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the CMIA. The bill would additionally deem a business that offers a health care chatbot, as defined, to a consumer for the above-described purposes to be a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the …
Sponsors
- Mia Bonta (D, AD18) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 854, Statutes of 2026.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 10. Page 6688.).
- : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 10.).
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9.).
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Votes
- AB 1979 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments (August 27, 2026): 66 yea, 10 nay, passed
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1979 Bonta By Cabaldon (August 26, 2026): 30 yea, 9 nay, passed
- Do pass (August 13, 2026): 5 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Placed on suspense file (August 3, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] (July 1, 2026): 8 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] (June 15, 2026): 7 yea, 2 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB1979?
- AB1979 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Health care services: artificial intelligence.
- What does AB1979 do?
- In its own words: An act to add Chapter 25.5 (commencing with Section 22758.5) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, and to amend Sections 56.05 and 56.06 of the Civil Code, relating to health care services. health care services Health care services: artificial intelligence…
- What is the status of AB1979?
- Chaptered as of September 30, 2026. Latest action: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 854, Statutes of 2026. (September 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored AB1979?
- Mia Bonta (D, AD18).
- Where is the official record for AB1979?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1979
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