---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities."
description: "Health facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2547"
citation: "California AB 2547 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2000-02-24"
last_action: "2000-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df40987c-210e-47a1-b192-d5cf869eee31"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547"
source_hash: "86f0b90737c57b27b4fa1823c622f354cb1b05bac1b06d77ca36904110565a43"
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 2547 (19992000) — Health facilities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/24/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254799INT)
2. **05/01/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254798AMD)
3. **05/24/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254797AMD)
4. **08/31/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254796AMD)
5. **09/29/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254794CHP)
6. **AB2547** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547)
7. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2547&version=19990AB254795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Information Technology to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB2547 Hertzberg — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 2547 W/O REFERENCE TO FILE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2547 MR. SPEAKER THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (person)
- Calderon — principal coauthor (person)
- Cardenas — principal coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — principal coauthor (person)
- Ducheny — principal coauthor (person)
- Escutia — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — principal coauthor (person)
- Gallegos — principal coauthor (person)
- Havice — principal coauthor (person)
- Nakano — principal coauthor (person)
- Polanco — author (person)
- Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
- Roderick Wright — principal coauthor (person)
- Romero — principal coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — principal coauthor (person)
- Vincent — principal coauthor (person)
- Washington — principal coauthor (person)
- Wesson — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 842, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2000-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 45. Noes 14. Page 9055.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-31** From inactive file. To second reading. Amended. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 5. Page 6525.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-18** To inactive file on motion of Senator Figueroa.
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2000-06-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-06** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6694.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 17). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-05-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-27** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-04-05** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on INFO. TECH. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Health and INFO. TECH. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2000-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df40987c-210e-47a1-b192-d5cf869eee31`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).