---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Department of Public Health: licensure: home health agencies."
description: "State Department of Public Health: licensure: home health agencies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 993"
citation: "California AB 993 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Department of Public Health: licensure: home health agencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aghazarian"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2f3d37e-707a-44c9-bdde-5d0df474f645"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993"
source_hash: "34a5cc66bb4e1fa0fbc49f819eee07c148b8fa4e39b4a9b9cbe543cb2a89e69d"
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 993 (20072008) — State Department of Public Health: licensure: home health agencies.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99399INT)
2. **04/09/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99398AMD)
3. **04/18/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99397AMD)
4. **05/01/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99396AMD)
5. **06/01/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99395AMD)
6. **06/27/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99394AMD)
7. **08/30/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99393AMD)
8. **10/13/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99391CHP)
9. **AB993** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993)
10. **09/07/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB993&version=20070AB99392ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB993 Aghazarian By Ashburn — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 993 AGHAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 993 AGHAZARIAN Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aghazarian — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-19** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-06-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1948.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-14** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-06-27** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-07-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-08-30** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-31** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2329.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2007-09-06** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2997.)
- **2007-09-06** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3009.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 7:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2f3d37e-707a-44c9-bdde-5d0df474f645`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).