CaliforniaBirth conditions monitoring.
What it does
Existing law states that it is the intent of the Legislature to maintain an ongoing program of birth defects monitoring statewide, and requires the State Public Health Officer to maintain a system for the collection of information related to birth defects, as specified. Existing law requires the officer to require general acute care hospitals and physician-owned or physician-operated clinics that regularly provide services for the diagnosis or treatment of birth defects, genetic counseling, or prenatal diagnostic services to make available to the department the medical records of children suspected or diagnosed as having birth defects, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into a contract for the establishment and implementation of the birth defects monitoring program.
More detail
This bill would state that it is additionally the intent of the Legislature to authorize local health jurisdictions to initiate and maintain programs to monitor birth conditions, as defined, that are present during the 12-month period after an individual's birth in their local health jurisdictions. The bill would authorize a local health officer to maintain a system for the collection of specified information within their local health jurisdiction related to birth conditions. The bill would authorize a local health officer to issue a written order to providers and laboratories, as specified, in addition to the facilities listed above, within their local health jurisdiction to either make available or to report to the local health department information related to birth conditions, as specified.
Existing law limits access to confidential information related to birth defects to authorized program staff and persons with a valid scientific interest, as specified, and prohibits that information from being admissible, disclosed, discoverable, or compelled to be produced in any civil, criminal, administrative, or other proceeding, as specified. Existing law provides that, except as otherwise provided by statute, all relevant evidence is admissible. The California Constitution provides for the Right to Truth-In-Evidence, which requires a 23 vote of the Legislature to exclude any relevant evidence from any criminal proceeding, as specified.
This bill would expand the scope of the confidentiality provisions described above to include additional conditions, thereby prohibiting the use of additional information in criminal proceedings. Because that prohibition would affect the admissibility of relevant evidence in criminal proceedings, the bill would require a 23 vote of the Legislature.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
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- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Sep 30Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 874, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 30Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 9Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 31
- Vote recorded AB 1129 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 30Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6912.).Major
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1129 Celeste Rodriguez By Smallwood-Cuevas. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 30In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Aug 30Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).Passed Senate
- Aug 30Ordered to special consent calendar.
- Aug 24Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 21Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.Major
- Aug 21Ordered to second reading.Minor
- Aug 21From inactive file.
- 2025
- Sep 9Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Gonzalez.
- Aug 18Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 18From Consent Calendar.
- Jul 17Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar.Major
- Jul 16From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15).Major
- Jul 15
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Jul 10From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Jul 9
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 30From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.Major
- Jun 18Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.Minor
- Jun 9In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Jun 5Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2103.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1129 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 2Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1952.)Major
- May 22Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 21From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 21).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Apr 30From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 29
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 23Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- Apr 22From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 10Referred to Com. on HEALTH.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- Feb 20Read first time. To print.Introduced