AB-1930 Abortion or gender-affirming health care services: subpoenas, discovery requests, or other requests for information
Sep 6, 2026 edition · GC-2026-0069 · Published 2026-09-06 · Version 2 · Proposed
AB 1930 proposed Attorney General notice for certain protected-care legal demands, with four express exemptions.
What happened
The September 1 enrolled AB 1930 would generally require a person or entity located, headquartered, incorporated or doing business in California to notify the Attorney General at least seven business days before producing records under specified legal-process investigations of legally protected abortion or gender-affirming care. The notice would include the demand, with permitted confidentiality redactions. A shorter federal-law or federal-obligation response time, including a contract, grant or Medicare participation condition, instead permits notice no later than contemporaneous production and triggers the stated best-efforts production timing.
The notice rule would not apply to court-ordered demands, California state/local agency demands, qualifying attestations or records where the protected-care information is incidental to the investigation. The attestation alternatives cover nonpunitive protected-care use, identified conduct unlawful under California law or identified California professional-discipline grounds; recipients may rely on representations. The bill provides Attorney General intervention and enforcement mechanisms, including a $15,000 false-attestation penalty. At the September 5 cutoff this was proposed legal-process control, not a universal prohibition on producing care records.
Scope and timing
- Authority status
- Proposed
- Applicability
- Potentially applicable
- Audience
- Health systems, Provider networks
- Jurisdiction
- California
Why it matters
Demand intake would need scope, exemption and federal-timing review rather than an automatic seven-day hold on every subpoena.
Recommended action
Monitor enactment and have Legal and Privacy map covered demands, all exemptions, permitted redactions and shorter federal obligations before implementing any new notice procedure.
Sources
- AB-1930 Abortion or gender-affirming health care services: subpoenas, discovery requests, or other requests for information, bill historyOfficial · California Legislature · 2026-09-04 · Source review 2026-09-10
- AB-1930 Abortion or gender-affirming health care services: subpoenas, discovery requests, or other requests for information, current bill text (09/01/26 - Enrolled)Official · California Legislature · 2026-09-01 · Source review 2026-09-10
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