---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities: nursing staff."
description: "Health facilities: nursing staff."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 394"
citation: "California AB 394 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities: nursing staff."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kuehl"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 10
first_action: "1999-02-11"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14fc1b62-c712-4e2e-bff5-9a0053998680"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394"
source_hash: "fb6d081faa81d22d51ce8344dacb0a74b8bf42dd206c75f8612292a7ee022d92"
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 394 (19992000) — Health facilities: nursing staff.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39499INT)
2. **06/01/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39498AMD)
3. **06/23/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39497AMD)
4. **07/06/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39496AMD)
5. **08/16/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39495AMD)
6. **09/03/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39494AMD)
7. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39492CHP)
8. **AB394** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394)
9. **09/09/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB394&version=19990AB39493ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB394 Kuehl By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 394 KUEHL CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Business and Professions. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 394 KUEHL CONCURRENCE MOTION TO RE-REFER TO COMMITTEE — **fail** (fail) · lower
- AB 394 KUEHL THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kuehl — primary (person)
- Burton — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Escutia — coauthor (person)
- Gallegos — coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Villaraigosa — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 945, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **1999-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 46. Noes 29. Page 4216.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **1999-09-08** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 17. Page 3046.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 6.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-16** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-06-09** Referred to H. & H.S. and Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 29. Page 2410.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 4.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **1999-02-11** 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/14fc1b62-c712-4e2e-bff5-9a0053998680`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).