---
type: "Bill"
title: "Liability: emergency care."
description: "Liability: emergency care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2041"
citation: "California AB 2041 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Liability: emergency care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vargas"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-15"
last_action: "2002-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3aee390c-0355-4ff0-9e19-593fee1c8c8c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041"
source_hash: "3087fab27af21ccb9c9fb07105e3ad4e861b3c2beb712a0ac2b1d94f523bd131"
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 2041 (20012002) — Liability: emergency care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204199INT)
2. **04/16/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204198AMD)
3. **08/14/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204197AMD)
4. **08/22/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204196AMD)
5. **09/20/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204194CHP)
6. **AB2041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041)
7. **08/28/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2041&version=20010AB204195ENR)

## Votes

- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2041 Vargas By Alpert — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2041 Vargas Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2041 Vargas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vargas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 718, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 8382.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5825.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-22** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-08-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-13** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6060.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-09** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-04-22** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5649.)
- **2002-04-17** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary and Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2002-02-15** 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/3aee390c-0355-4ff0-9e19-593fee1c8c8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).