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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals."
+description: "Under existing law, health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, are licensed and regulated by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits a health facility from charging, billing, or otherwise soliciting payment from a patient on behalf of, or referring a patient to, another health facility in which the health facility has a significant beneficial interest, except as provided. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 1365"
+citation: "California SB 1365 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Hospitals."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-02-19"
+last_action: "2016-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b61bfff4-084f-47d2-92ef-2c471a098edc"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365"
+source_hash: "251357221f3728cc822e3dd7c90f6e514a20127c0d239b1784690b072a8db2a9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 1365 (20152016) — Hospitals.
+
+Under existing law, health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, are licensed and regulated by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits a health facility from charging, billing, or otherwise soliciting payment from a patient on behalf of, or referring a patient to, another health facility in which the health facility has a significant beneficial interest, except as provided. A violation of these provisions is a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136599INT)
+2. **05/31/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136598AMD)
+3. **06/16/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136597AMD)
+4. **08/18/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136596AMD)
+5. **09/23/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136594CHP)
+6. **SB1365** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365)
+7. **09/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1365&version=20150SB136595ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB1365 Hernandez Concurrence — **26–13** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **26–11** (pass) · upper
+- SB 1365 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **18–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hernandez — primary (person)
+- Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
+- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-05** Set for hearing April 20.
+- **2016-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3646.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-05-13** Set for hearing May 23.
+- **2016-05-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2016-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-31** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-31** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2016-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 11. Page 4147.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2016-06-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-08** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
+- **2016-08-08** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2016-08-18** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2016-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6230.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2016-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 26. Noes 13. Page 5490.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
+- **2016-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 501, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b61bfff4-084f-47d2-92ef-2c471a098edc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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