---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires certain public records to be made available for public inspection."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1540"
citation: "California AB 1540 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 37
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2009-03-04"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41650c9c-c045-4dcd-baa8-b2bc8a3822b2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540"
source_hash: "555fd67de8dbc172ee0ca39749834b46cc98a32c5b4198f785c61d1dab80ac0f"
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 1540 (20092010) — Health.

(1) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires certain public records to be made available for public inspection.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/04/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154099INT)
2. **04/16/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154098AMD)
3. **05/05/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154097AMD)
4. **06/16/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154096AMD)
5. **06/18/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154095AMD)
6. **06/24/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154094AMD)
7. **07/02/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154093AMD)
8. **07/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154092AMD)
9. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154091AMD)
10. **09/03/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154090AMD)
11. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154088CHP)
12. **AB1540** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540)
13. **09/17/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1540&version=20090AB154089ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1540 Committee on HEALTH (Jones) By Pavley — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1540 HEALTH Assembly Third Reading By JONES — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1540 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By JONES — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-03-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-03-05** From printer. May be heard in committee April 4.
- **2009-04-02** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-20** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Re-referred. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-28** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-05-04** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-05** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-29** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1856.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-09** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on EQ. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 13). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-08-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2314.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2009-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3300.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 298, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41650c9c-c045-4dcd-baa8-b2bc8a3822b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).