---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities: seismic safety."
description: "Health facilities: seismic safety."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2720"
citation: "California AB 2720 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities: seismic safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Laird"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd877546-1539-4957-9002-386b2bc52195"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720"
source_hash: "84dcb2f8f2a2f20aacdef075f0e2dac4c0aa61818cdc00a03f19a4bdab8d010e"
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 2720 (20032004) — Health facilities: seismic safety.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720&version=20030AB272099INT)
2. **04/26/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720&version=20030AB272098AMD)
3. **05/11/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720&version=20030AB272097AMD)
4. **07/23/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720&version=20030AB272095CHP)
5. **AB2720** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720)
6. **07/12/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2720&version=20030AB272096ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass and be placed on the consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- consent calendar 2nd ab2720 laird — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 2720 laird assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Laird — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 192, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-07-16** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2004-07-15** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-07-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4621.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-07-02** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-07-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-17** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-06-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-20** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 8. Page 5843.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2004-05-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-11** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 4). `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2004-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** 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/fd877546-1539-4957-9002-386b2bc52195`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).