---
type: "Bill"
title: "County health care."
description: "County health care."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1657"
citation: "California AB 1657 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County health care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hertzberg"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2295b5f6-4d6c-4407-b035-363806805b3d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657"
source_hash: "c9eaee778f74665ae96e820adc752a59f26a73bafb6cac466950eeca8c753724"
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 1657 (20012002) — County health care.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165799INT)
2. **04/18/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165798AMD)
3. **05/01/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165797AMD)
4. **05/14/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165796AMD)
5. **08/13/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165794CHP)
6. **AB1657** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657)
7. **07/21/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1657&version=20010AB165795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #21 AB1657 Hertzberg — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1657 Hertzberg Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hertzberg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 195, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-08-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-31** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2001-07-23** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-07-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2176.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-16** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2015.) Motion to reconsider made by Senator Burton. Reconsideration granted. (Page 2016.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-07-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-12** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1916.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-25** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-05-15** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-07** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-23** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2295b5f6-4d6c-4407-b035-363806805b3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).