§ 6215.1

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 679, Sec. 2. (AB 82) Effective January 1, 2026.

Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.

(a)“Address” means a residential street address, school address, or work address of an individual, as specified on the individual’s application to be a program participant under this chapter.
(b)“Designated health care services” means gender-affirming health care services or reproductive health care services.
(c)“Designated health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a gender-affirming health care or a gender-affirming mental health care

provider, employee, volunteer, or patient, or a reproductive health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient.

(d)“Designated health care services facility” means a gender-affirming health care services facility or a reproductive health care services facility.
(e)“Domicile” means a place of habitation as defined in Section 349 of the Elections Code.
(f)“Gender-affirming health care” and “gender-affirming mental health care” shall have the same meaning as provided in Section 16010.2 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(g)“Gender-affirming health care and gender-affirming mental health care provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a

person who obtains, provides, or assists, at the request of another person, in obtaining or providing gender-affirming health care services, or a person who owns or operates a gender-affirming health care services facility.

(h)“Gender-affirming health care services facility” includes a hospital, an office operated by a licensed health care provider, a licensed clinic, or other licensed health care facility that provides gender-affirming health care services.
(i)“Reproductive health care services” means health care services relating to the termination of a pregnancy in a reproductive health care services facility.
(j)“Reproductive health care services provider, employee, volunteer, or patient” means a

person who obtains, provides, or assists, at the request of another person, in obtaining or providing reproductive health care services, or a person who owns or operates a reproductive health care services facility.

(k)“Reproductive health care services facility” includes a hospital, an office operated by a licensed physician and surgeon, a licensed clinic, or other licensed health care facility that provides reproductive health care services and includes only the building or structure in which the reproductive health care services are actually provided.

Other sections in Chapter 3.2 - Address Confidentiality for Reproductive Health Care Service Providers, Employees, Volunteers, Patients, and Other Individuals Who Face Threats or Violence Because of Work for a Public Entity

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