---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kern County 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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2546"
citation: "California AB 2546 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Kern County Hospital Authority."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-21"
last_action: "2014-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d0fedd4-3bad-4287-8296-c4651d772a5f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546"
source_hash: "2fb73599534a110bf652db6729d30b8fdf8d9af52513554b9cb557d4cf39b183"
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 2546 (20132014) — Kern County 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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254699INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254698AMD)
3. **04/29/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254697AMD)
4. **05/15/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254696AMD)
5. **06/10/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254695AMD)
6. **06/26/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254694AMD)
7. **08/11/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254693AMD)
8. **09/26/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254691CHP)
9. **AB2546** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546)
10. **08/22/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2546&version=20130AB254692ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2546 Salas By Fuller — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2546 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2546 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-28** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4962.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5001.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-11** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4502.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6266.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d0fedd4-3bad-4287-8296-c4651d772a5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).