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AB 67

Relating to: venue for actions in which there is a governmental party.

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Scott Allen and 9 co-sponsors

AB 67 grants the California AG power to enforce the Reproductive Privacy Act: investigate, sue, seek injunctions, restitution/disgorgement, and civil penalties up to $25,000.

Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary
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Bill Summary · AB 67

AB 67 — Attorney General: Reproductive Privacy Act: enforcement

Author: Assemblymember Bauer‑Kahan
Introduced: December 4, 2024
Status (most recent): In committee — Held under submission (May 23, 2025)

Purpose / Intent

AB 67 expands enforcement tools available to the California Attorney General (AG) for enforcement of the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA). The bill authorizes the AG to investigate and sue to stop or remedy violations of the RPA, adds civil penalties, and adjusts certain procedural rules under the Government Claims Act to facilitate actions under the RPA.

Key provisions

  • AG civil enforcement authority: If the AG reasonably believes a person is violating, or about to violate, the RPA, the AG may bring an action in the name of the People in superior court to enjoin the acts or require compliance.
  • Investigative powers: The AG may conduct public or private investigations, publish information about violations, and issue subpoenas to compel attendance, testimony, and production of documents the AG deems relevant or material.
  • Remedies and relief: Courts may issue preliminary or permanent injunctions, restraining orders, or writs of mandate. The AG may seek ancillary relief (e.g., restitution, disgorgement, damages on behalf of injured persons). If ordered to pay restitution, a court may enter a money judgment enforceable like other judgments.
  • Civil penalties: The bill would impose a civil penalty not exceeding $25,000 on any person or governmental entity that violates any provision of the RPA. The bill also provides for additional civil penalties for violation of the bill’s provisions as specified in the text.
  • Funding of enforcement: Costs, fees, and civil penalties collected under these provisions would be made available to the AG’s office, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for exclusive use in enforcing the RPA.
  • Government Claims Act amendment: Section 905 of the Government Code is amended to exempt claims brought under the RPA from the usual claim‑presentation requirements applicable to money/damages claims against local public entities (i.e., such claims need not follow Chapter 1/2 claim presentation requirements).

Who or what is affected

  • Individuals and private entities: Persons whose actions implicate the RPA could face AG investigation, injunctions, restitution, disgorgement, and civil penalties (up to $25,000).
  • Governmental entities: Local public entities remain subject to the RPA and could face penalties and AG enforcement actions; RPA claims against local entities would be exempted from normal Government Claims Act presentation procedures.
  • Attorney General’s office: Gains expanded investigative, prosecutorial, and funding mechanisms to enforce the RPA.

Procedural / timeline notes

  • Introduced Dec 4, 2024. Referred to Judiciary and Privacy & Consumer Protection committees; amended in committee and passed out of Judiciary and P. & C.P. to Appropriations. Referred to suspense file and, as of May 23, 2025, held under submission in committee.
  • The legislative counsel’s digest and bill text provided are partially truncated in the available documents; some specific penalty‑calculation mechanisms or procedural details referenced in the truncated sections are not shown in the source materials provided.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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