---
type: "Bill"
title: "Central Coast Hospital Authority."
description: "Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of certain counties to establish a hospital authority for the management, administration, and control of certain medical facilities. Existing law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Monterey to establish a special health care authority with prescribed powers and duties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 276"
citation: "California AB 276 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Central Coast Hospital Authority."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alejo"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2011-02-07"
last_action: "2012-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f3f772f-2282-440e-aa23-90ede2554684"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276"
source_hash: "235eae6ca4594691462b3eac01636d1148571ea7c23205eb3e7a291d0d36ff2d"
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 276 (20112012) — Central Coast Hospital Authority.

Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of certain counties to establish a hospital authority for the management, administration, and control of certain medical facilities. Existing law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of the County of Monterey to establish a special health care authority with prescribed powers and duties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27699INT)
2. **04/04/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27698AMD)
3. **06/04/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27696AMD)
4. **06/19/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27695AMD)
5. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27694AMD)
6. **08/18/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27697AMD)
7. **08/22/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27693AMD)
8. **09/28/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27691CHP)
9. **AB276** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276)
10. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB276&version=20110AB27692ENR)

## Votes

- AB 276 ALEJO Assembly Third Reading — **76–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB276 Alejo By Cannella — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- amendments be concurred in. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 276 ALEJO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alejo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2011-02-18** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-12** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 1699.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-08** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-08-22** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2011-08-22** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-04** 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`
- **2012-06-06** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-06-06** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-14** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4883.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-29** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6588.)
- **2012-08-30** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 3. Page 6695.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2012-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 686, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0f3f772f-2282-440e-aa23-90ede2554684`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).