--- type: "Bill" title: "General acute care hospitals: patient directories." description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 894" citation: "California AB 894 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Generalacutecarehospitals", "patientdirectories"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Carrillo"] version_count: 8 action_count: 26 vote_count: 7 first_action: "2025-02-19" last_action: "2025-10-06" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fadf3c72-95ae-4d17-8246-fe51e3b34d8d" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894" source_hash: "b621e806928ee20b6fcc7bf06a3b248b160f31829453992fd506c63754e772db" 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 894 (20252026) — General acute care hospitals: patient directories. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a crime. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89499INT) 2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89498AMD) 3. **04/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89497AMD) 4. **06/09/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89496AMD) 5. **08/27/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89495AMD) 6. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89493CHP) 7. **AB894** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894) 8. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB894&version=20250AB89494ENR) ## Votes - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB894 Carrillo et al. By Rubio — **40–0** (pass) · upper - AB 894 Carrillo Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower - AB 894 Carrillo Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Carrillo — primary (person) - Alanis — coauthor (person) - Rubio — coauthor (person) - Ward — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. - **2025-03-24** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2025-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1663.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2025-06-04** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee` - **2025-06-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-07-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2025-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-08-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2448.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2920.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 384, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fadf3c72-95ae-4d17-8246-fe51e3b34d8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).