---
type: "Bill"
title: "Psychiatric inpatient hospital services: reimbursement."
description: "Psychiatric inpatient hospital services: reimbursement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 939"
citation: "California AB 939 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Psychiatric inpatient hospital services: reimbursement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yee"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2003-02-20"
last_action: "2004-09-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07240075-2948-4a68-9ab9-9ec7e432d283"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939"
source_hash: "65dd5571db3d352b87fead059c9046c278af7e12cc45f91ebc23d0395fdef79d"
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 939 (20032004) — Psychiatric inpatient hospital services: reimbursement.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93999INT)
2. **03/15/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93996AMD)
3. **04/24/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93998AMD)
4. **04/28/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93995AMD)
5. **06/02/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93997AMD)
6. **09/24/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93993CHP)
7. **AB939** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939)
8. **08/24/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB939&version=20030AB93994ENR)

## Votes

- special consent cale ab939 yee — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 939 yee assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 939 yee concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2004-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 7529.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5060.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-21** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2004-06-03** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-28** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-25** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-03-22** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-03-15** 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. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-12** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2003-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-06-03** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2163.) `passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 24. Noes 0.) (May 28). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 24. Noes 1.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** 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`
- **2003-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2003-02-20** 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/07240075-2948-4a68-9ab9-9ec7e432d283`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).