AB 2575: Health care services: artificial intelligence

Latest recorded action

August 31, 2026. Assembly took the measure without reference to file and concurred in the Senate amendments, 51–16. Senate third reading 21–10; Assembly concurrence 51–16, both 31 August.

Concurrence. CONCURRED 31 AUGUST 2026 (51–16).

Legislative history

• August 28, 2026. Third reading; passage refused 18–10; reconsideration granted 40–0; read third time and amended; ordered to second reading.
• August 30, 2026. Read second time; ordered to third reading.
• August 31, 2026. Read third time; passed the Senate 21–10; ordered to the Assembly.
• August 31, 2026. Assembly took the measure without reference to file; Senate amendments concurred in, 51–16 — legislative passage complete.

Text versions

What the bill does

AB 2575 is authored by Assemblymember Liz Ortega (D-Hayward). Its long title is an act to add Section 1714.48 to the Civil Code, Section 1339.76 to the Health and Safety Code, and Article 2.7 (commencing with Section 2820) to Chapter 2 of Division 3 of the Labor Code, relating to health care services. Those three placements are the structure of the measure and they map onto its three subjects: civil liability, health-facility duty, and employment protection.

On the operative substance, three things are established. The measure would protect health-care workers from employer retaliation based solely on their overriding an AI system within their scope of practice. It would bar an AI developer from asserting, as a defence to patient harm arising from an AI recommendation, that a worker’s failure to override the system absolves the developer. And it reaches transparency about AI systems used in patient care — a facility duty rather than a liability rule.

The earlier summary on this page, which described a tool-inventory duty commencing 1 July 2027, is not carried forward: it stated a commencement date and a duty shape that the current text has not been read to support. The transparency obligation is real; its precise trigger, scope and any commencement date are not restated here until the enrolled text is read clause by clause. Read the official text for the operative language.

What it does not do

Legislative passage is complete and the text is enrolled. The bill is not law and is not operative. Enrollment is a recorded event; presentment to the Governor is a separate event and is not established on the record read for this snapshot. No signature, chapter number, effective date or operative date is established. Any duty the measure would create depends entirely on enactment, and none of its dates runs from enrollment.

KPSGILL position

No position taken on this bill. KPSGILL has published adjacent work: the model AI Medical Record Integrity Standard reaches provenance for machine-generated clinical text, where this bill reaches tool inventories, clinical decision support and worker override. The enrolled 4 September text has not been read clause by clause against that standard, so no comparison of the two is offered.

Open verification items

Named here rather than answered with an assumption.

• Enrollment and presentment entries
• Presentment date — a recorded event, not inferred from enrollment. As at this snapshot the Governor’s office has published signing lists for 22, 27 and 31 August 2026; AB 2575 appears on none of them.
• Any Governor-action deadline, which runs from presentment and is therefore not computable until presentment is on the record
• Whether the Senate Appropriations suspense referral of 3 August 2026 left a cost note that survives into the enrolled version
• Chaptered text, operative date, and the 28 August amended provisions read in full

What happens next

Governor action deadline: September 30, 2026. That is the session-wide date this desk tracks, not a date computed from this bill’s own presentment: enrolment and presentment for this bill are not established on the record read here, and until they are, no per-bill clock can be stated. Every qualifying measure is tracked on the Governor’s Health Bill Desk; scheduled dates sit on the decision calendar.

Sources

• LegiScan — AB 2575 action history

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