---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment safety: health facilities."
description: "Existing law regulates the operation of health facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1136"
citation: "California AB 1136 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment safety: health facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Swanson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a217092-38b4-4d1e-9ef5-46f58b98b069"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136"
source_hash: "e7f232158d7a644821452a8b9a20e12460a4878792b16890f3d8211de3f45e02"
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 1136 (20112012) — Employment safety: health facilities.

Existing law regulates the operation of health facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113699INT)
2. **04/06/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113698AMD)
3. **04/26/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113697AMD)
4. **05/31/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113696AMD)
5. **06/20/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113695AMD)
6. **07/05/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113694AMD)
7. **08/15/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113693AMD)
8. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113691CHP)
9. **AB1136** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136)
10. **09/19/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1136&version=20110AB113692ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1136 SWANSON Assembly Third Reading — **50–27** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 1136 SWANSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–26** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1136 Swanson By DeSaulnier — **21–18** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Swanson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2011-03-17** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1632.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 1821.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-11** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-08-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 18. Page 2315.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 26. Page 3051.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 554, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7a217092-38b4-4d1e-9ef5-46f58b98b069`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).