Cancer data: notifications.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Jones
Last action: 2026-04-09
Official status: Set for hearing April 22.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide details on the consequences if notification is delayed or missed.

Cancer Data Notifications

The bill requires hospitals, doctors, and labs that report cancer cases to the state health department to also notify patients by mail within five business days.

What This Bill Does

Requires hospitals, doctors, and labs to inform patients when they report a cancer case to the state health department.
Specifies that this notification must happen within five business days after reporting the cancer case.

Who It Names or Affects

Hospitals, doctors, and labs that report cancer cases to the state health department.
Patients with cancer who receive services from these entities.

Terms To Know

Registry: A collection of information about a specific group of people or diseases kept by an organization, like the state health department.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if a patient is not notified within five business days.
It's unclear whether the bill will change how the state health department conducts its cancer studies.

Bill History

2026-04-09 California Legislative Information
Set for hearing April 22.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
2026-03-25 California Legislative Information
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2026-02-26 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on RLS.
2026-02-19 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2026-02-18 California Legislative Information
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 1150, as amended, Jones.
Cancer
data.
data: notifications.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of cancer. Existing law requires specified entities providing specified services to cancer patients, including hospitals, practitioners, and laboratories, to report each case of cancer to the department, as specified.
This bill would require an entity described above to, within 5 business days of making a report to the department, notify the patient by mail that the entity has reported the patient’s case to the department as described above and that the department may use that report to add the patient’s case to a registry of cancer cases.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to conduct a program of epidemiological assessments of the incidence of cancer. Existing law puts the program under the direction of the State Public Health Officer, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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