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+type: "Bill"
+title: "General acute care hospitals: patient directories."
+description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 894"
+citation: "California AB 894 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Generalacutecarehospitals", "patientdirectories"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Carrillo"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2025-02-19"
+last_action: "2025-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fadf3c72-95ae-4d17-8246-fe51e3b34d8d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894"
+source_hash: "b621e806928ee20b6fcc7bf06a3b248b160f31829453992fd506c63754e772db"
+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 AB 894 (20252026) — General acute care hospitals: patient directories.
+
+Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89499INT)
+2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89498AMD)
+3. **04/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89497AMD)
+4. **06/09/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89496AMD)
+5. **08/27/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89495AMD)
+6. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89493CHP)
+7. **AB894** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894)
+8. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89494ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB894 Carrillo et al. By Rubio — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 894 Carrillo Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 894 Carrillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Carrillo — primary (person)
+- Alanis — coauthor (person)
+- Rubio — coauthor (person)
+- Ward — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1663.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2025-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-08-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2448.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2920.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 384, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fadf3c72-95ae-4d17-8246-fe51e3b34d8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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