---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care decisions."
description: "Health care decisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1278"
citation: "California AB 1278 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care decisions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wayne"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09548a6a-7a91-4e26-a412-9c201f8f54b7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278"
source_hash: "4bd16c7976a6a09fc96e68f19b3f6959d3ab063881d575dd91c9b9a06b8c4b02"
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 1278 (20012002) — Health care decisions.

## 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=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127899INT)
2. **04/05/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127898AMD)
3. **06/14/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127897AMD)
4. **07/09/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127896AMD)
5. **09/04/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127894CHP)
6. **AB1278** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278)
7. **08/20/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1278&version=20010AB127895ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1278 Wayne By Escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1278 Wayne Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1278 Wayne Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wayne — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 230, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-08-23** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2001-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3062.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-07-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 11. Page 2104.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-09** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-04-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1117.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-04-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-04-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1005.). `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **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/09548a6a-7a91-4e26-a412-9c201f8f54b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).