---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care service plans: hospice care."
description: "Health care service plans: hospice care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 892"
citation: "California AB 892 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care service plans: hospice care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alquist"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-25"
last_action: "1999-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a2272a5-7993-4a4a-bc32-163f8ce0fd20"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892"
source_hash: "21d518354db1f50732c057923e8e21751ea9d29a14b15ae283b30a4c97ea28f8"
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 892 (19992000) — Health care service plans: hospice care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89299INT)
2. **07/06/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89298AMD)
3. **08/17/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89297AMD)
4. **08/23/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89296AMD)
5. **09/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89294CHP)
6. **AB892** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892)
7. **09/09/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB892&version=19990AB89295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- AB 892 ALQUIST CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 892 ALQUIST THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB892 Alquist By Speier — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alquist — primary (person)
- Baca — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Hughes — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Thomson — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 528, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:15 p.m.
- **1999-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 69. Noes 9. Page 4195.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-08** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **1999-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **1999-09-07** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2984.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **1999-08-25** Joint Rule 61 (a)(10) suspended.
- **1999-08-25** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-23** 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 Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-17** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 7. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, 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 Insurance. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-05-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 16. Page 1757.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 13). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **1999-02-25** 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/6a2272a5-7993-4a4a-bc32-163f8ce0fd20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).