---
type: "Bill"
title: "General acute care hospitals: drug screening."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 864"
citation: "California SB 864 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["General acute care hospitals: drug screening."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melendez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-08-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/968efc51-f091-4498-a025-408d2f74e043"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864"
source_hash: "41d32bc1faf143a1f6293e4d375a9ace4a73d73696320eaa7897e9d8f12fb7ae"
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 SB 864 (20212022) — General acute care hospitals: drug screening.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/20/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86499INT)
2. **02/14/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86498AMD)
3. **03/28/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86497AMD)
4. **04/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86496AMD)
5. **08/22/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86494CHP)
6. **SB864** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864)
7. **08/08/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864&version=20210SB86495ENR)

## Votes

- SB 864 Melendez Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB864 Melendez et al. — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Melendez — primary (person)
- Bates — author (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Choi — coauthor (person)
- Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Nielsen — coauthor (person)
- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 20.
- **2022-02-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-02-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11** Set for hearing March 23.
- **2022-03-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3203.) (March 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-05** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2022-04-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3643.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5756.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-04** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2022-08-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2022-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 169, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/968efc51-f091-4498-a025-408d2f74e043`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).