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California 20252026

AB 54

Access to Safe Abortion Care Act.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
AccesstoSafeAbortionCareAct
Introduced / first action
2024-12-02 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law sets forth provisions, under the California Constitution, regarding the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion. Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a pregnant person's right to choose or obtain an abortion prior to viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person. This bill, the Access to Safe Abortion Care Act, would make legislative findings about medication abortion, with a focus on use of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. Under the bill, the Legislature would reaffirm that it has been, and would continue to be, lawful to cause the delivery of, or mail, ship, take, receive, or otherwise transport, any drug, medicine, or instrument that can be designed or adapted to produce an abortion that is lawful in the State of California. The bill would set forth provisions regarding the lack of civil or criminal liability, or professional disciplinary action, for accessing or administering brand name or generic mifepristone or any drug used for medication abortion that is lawful under the laws of the state, on or after January 1, 2020, with this provision applied retroactively, as specified. The bill would make its provisions severable.

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator McNerney.

  2. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  3. Ordered to second reading.

    reading-1, reading-2

  4. From inactive file.

  5. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Umberg.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  7. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.

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  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  9. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 25).

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  11. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  12. Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.

    referral-committee

  13. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    reading-1, referral-committee

  14. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 10. Page 1517.)

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  15. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  16. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (May 7).

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  17. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  18. Coauthors revised.

  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  20. Coauthors revised.

  21. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  22. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.

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  23. Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.

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  24. From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.

  25. Read first time. To print.

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