CA SB 313
enactedVital records: birth certificates.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 313 pass?
Yes. CA SB 313 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-12): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 669, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 313 about?
Existing law requires each live birth to be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths for the district in which the birth occurred, and prescribes specified information to be listed on a certificate of live birth, including the full name and sex of the child and the full name, birthplace, and date of birth of each parent. Existing law requires, in addition to the information mentioned above, the certificate of live birth to contain specified medical and social information, including, among other things, race and ethnicity of the mother and any other parent, and requires that information to be kept confidential. This bill, commencing July 1, 2027, would instead require the birthplace of each parent to be contained in the medical and social portion of the certificate of live birth and to be kept confidential. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Who sponsors CA SB 313?
Cervantes is the primary sponsor of CA SB 313, joined by 5 cosponsors.
Description
Existing law requires each live birth to be registered with the local registrar of births and deaths for the district in which the birth occurred, and prescribes specified information to be listed on a certificate of live birth, including the full name and sex of the child and the full name, birthplace, and date of birth of each parent. Existing law requires, in addition to the information mentioned above, the certificate of live birth to contain specified medical and social information, including, among other things, race and ethnicity of the mother and any other parent, and requires that information to be kept confidential. This bill, commencing July 1, 2027, would instead require the birthplace of each parent to be contained in the medical and social portion of the certificate of live birth and to be kept confidential. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-10
- Latest action
- 2025-10-12 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 669, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Cervantesauthor
- Arreguíncoauthor
- Menjivarcoauthor
- Harabediancoauthor
- Kalracoauthor
- Zburcoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2025-10-12
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 669, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-10-12
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-22
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-11
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 2881.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-10
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-10
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 14. Page 3173.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-05
Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
2025-09-05
Read third time and amended.
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2025-09-05
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 29).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-09
Coauthors revised.
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-09
Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-06-03
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1392.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1195.) (May 23).
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2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-12
May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-06
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-01
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 939.) (April 29).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 868.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-17
Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
2025-04-04
Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-02
Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-02-19
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-02-11
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
2025-02-10
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-04-23 · pass · 9-2
Member-level votes (11)
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Limón: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: no
- Grove: no
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (13)
- Valladares: other
- Arreguín: yes
- Allen: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Stern: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Niello: no
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading SB313 Cervantes et al.
2025-06-02 · pass · 28-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Menjivar: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Limón: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Niello: no
- Seyarto: no
- Valladares: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Grove: no
- Dahle: no
- Strickland: no
- Choi: no
- Jones: no
- Hurtado: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-07-01 · pass · 12-1
Member-level votes (16)
- Bonta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Krell: yes
- Addis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Chen: other
- Patterson: other
- Flora: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-08 · pass · 9-3
Member-level votes (12)
- Bryan: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Papan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Macedo: no
- Sanchez: no
- Dixon: no
Do pass.
2025-08-29 · pass · 11-3
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Tangipa: no
- Dixon: no
- Ta: other
SB 313 Cervantes Senate Third Reading By Bonta
2025-09-10 · pass · 59-14
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Zbur: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Dixon: no
- Hoover: no
- Hadwick: no
- Macedo: no
- Alanis: no
- Gallagher: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Sanchez: no
- Castillo: no
- Ellis: no
- Davies: no
- Patterson: no
- DeMaio: no
- Tangipa: other
- Lackey: other
- Wallis: other
- Chen: other
- Gabriel: other
- Flora: other
- Ta: other
Unfinished Business SB313 Cervantes et al. Concurrence
2025-09-11 · pass · 29-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Valladares: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Seyarto: no
- Jones: no
- Grove: no
- Strickland: no
- Niello: no
- Dahle: no
- Choi: no
- Wahab: other
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