CA AB 82

Title: Health care: legally protected health care activity.
Author: Christopher M. Ward

Summary
AB 82, as amended, Ward. Health care: legally protected health care activity. (1) Existing law authorizes reproductive health care service providers, employees, volunteers, and patients, and individuals who face threats of violence or violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a reproductive health care services facility, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s residence address contained in any public record and otherwise provide for confidentiality of identity for that person, subject to specified conditions. Under existing law, any person who makes a false statement in an application is guilty of a misdemeanor.This bill would expand the address confidentiality program to a gender-affirming health care provider, employee, or volunteer, as defined, who faces threats of violence or harassment from the public because of their affiliation with a gender-affirming health care services facility. By imposing new duties on local agencies and expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law prohibits a person, business, or association from knowingly publicly posting or publicly displaying, disclosing, or distributing on internet websites or on social media, the personal information or image of any reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, with the intent to incite a 3rd person to cause imminent great bodily harm to the person identified in the posting or display, or to a coresident of that person, as specified, or to threaten the person identified in the posting or display, or a coresident of that person, as specified. Existing law additionally prohibits a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the internet or social media the personal information or image of a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant with the intent described above. Existing law establishes a cause of action for injunctive or declarative relief for a violation of these prohibitions.Existing law prohibits a person from posting on the internet or social media, with the intent that another person imminently use that information to commit a crime involving violence or a threat of violence against a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address, the personal information or image of a reproductive health care services patient, provider, or assistant, or other individuals residing at the same home address. Existing law makes a violation of this prohibition punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 per violation, imprisonment, as specified, or by both that fine and imprisonment.This bill would additionally prohibit a person, business, or association from soliciting, selling, or trading on the internet or social media the personal information or image of a gender-affirming health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient with the intent described above. The bill would also prohibit a person from posting on the internet or social media, as described above, the personal information or image of a gender-affirming health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient, or other individuals residing at the same home address. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act (the act), classifies controlled substances into 5 designated schedules, with the most restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Schedule I, and the least restrictive limitations generally placed on controlled substances classified in Sche

Status
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

Bill Documents
CA AB 82 - 07/10/25 - Amended Senate
07/10/25 - CA AB 82 (07/10/25 - Amended Senate)