---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities: notices."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified. Existing law requires a hospital that provides emergency medical services to, as soon as possible, but not later than 90 days prior to a planned reduction or elimination of the level of emergency medical services, provide notice of the intended change to the department, other specified entities, and the public. Existing law also requires a health facility to provide public notice, as specified, not less than 30 days prior to closing the health facility, eliminating a supplemental service, as defined, or relocating the provision of supplemental services to a different campus."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2037"
citation: "California AB 2037 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities: notices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abef795e-8dbc-4d6f-abc7-d1ec9fd32894"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037"
source_hash: "6c4f386b1fb14766ce853eb5b3fa18a8e383edc43d7740a3fc19c7cc64b8f88e"
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 2037 (20192020) — Health facilities: notices.

(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified. Existing law requires a hospital that provides emergency medical services to, as soon as possible, but not later than 90 days prior to a planned reduction or elimination of the level of emergency medical services, provide notice of the intended change to the department, other specified entities, and the public. Existing law also requires a health facility to provide public notice, as specified, not less than 30 days prior to closing the health facility, eliminating a supplemental service, as defined, or relocating the provision of supplemental services to a different campus.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203799INT)
2. **05/11/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203798AMD)
3. **05/20/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203797AMD)
4. **08/20/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203796AMD)
5. **09/18/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203794CHP)
6. **AB2037** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037)
7. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2037&version=20190AB203795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 2037 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BONTA — **51–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2037 Wicks et al. By Leyva — **25–12** (pass) · upper
- AB 2037 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **50–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wicks — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2020-02-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (June 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 15. Page 4685.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 4434.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 51. Noes 12. Page 5385.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 95, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abef795e-8dbc-4d6f-abc7-d1ec9fd32894`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).