CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 894Introduced by Assembly Member CarrilloFebruary 19, 2025 An act relating to health and care facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 894, as introduced, Carrillo. Health facilities: immigration and patient privacy.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.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 to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 894Introduced by Assembly Member CarrilloFebruary 19, 2025 An act relating to health and care facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 894, as introduced, Carrillo. Health facilities: immigration and patient privacy.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.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 to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 894
Introduced by Assembly Member CarrilloFebruary 19, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo
February 19, 2025
An act relating to health and care facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 894, as introduced, Carrillo. Health facilities: immigration and patient privacy.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.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 to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.
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 to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect the privacy of undocumented Californians in hospitals.
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