AB 2575: Health care services: artificial intelligence.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of various labor laws, including investigation of employee complaints.

This bill would declare it is the policy of the state that a worker providing direct patient care be free to use their professional judgment to make assessments and decisions within their scope of practice as appropriate for their patients. The bill would prohibit an employer from retaliating or discriminating against a worker providing patient care, as specified. The bill would authorize a worker who is subject to retaliation or discrimination in violation of these provisions to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner against an employer. The bill would require the Labor Commissioner to enforce these provisions, as specified.

Existing law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person. Existing law prohibits a defendant who developed, modified, or used artificial intelligence, as defined, from asserting a defense that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.

This bill would prohibit a defendant who developed, modified, selected, or deployed a clinical decision support system that is alleged to have harmed the plaintiff from asserting a defense that the failure of a licensed health care professional or other health care worker to override an output of the clinical decision support system is a superseding cause severing the defendant’s liability for the alleged harm.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. September 30, 2026Vetoed by Governor.
2. September 15, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
3. August 31, 2026Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 7061.).
4. August 31, 2026Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 7061.)
5. August 31, 2026In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
6. August 31, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 10.).
7. August 30, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
8. August 28, 2026Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
9. August 28, 2026Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.)
10. August 28, 2026Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 18. Noes 10.).
11. August 24, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
12. August 21, 2026Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.