---
type: "Bill"
title: "Joint powers agreements: County of El Dorado: nonprofit hospitals."
description: "The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 545"
citation: "California AB 545 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Joint powers agreements: County of El Dorado: nonprofit hospitals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-13"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd5281e8-aa4c-4d52-ac1b-e836a6034b4b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB545"
source_hash: "fef71883964b03dcd30a5c241e5f6338ddaffbd5cf4837ee58d9bae3e8f2da12"
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 545 (20172018) — Joint powers agreements: County of El Dorado: nonprofit hospitals.

The Joint Exercise of Powers Act authorizes 2 or more public agencies to enter into an agreement to jointly exercise any power common to the contracting parties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB545&version=20170AB54599INT)
2. **07/24/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB545&version=20170AB54597CHP)
3. **AB545** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB545)
4. **07/12/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB545&version=20170AB54598ENR)

## Sponsors

- Bigelow — primary (person)
- Gaines — coauthor (person)
- Kiley — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2017-03-06** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 28). Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1491.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-07-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1932.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-07-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 124, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fd5281e8-aa4c-4d52-ac1b-e836a6034b4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).