republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-2271.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities: licensing and certification requirements."
description: "Health facilities: licensing and certification requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2271"
citation: "California AB 2271 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities: licensing and certification requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aanestad"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2002-02-20"
last_action: "2002-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff9dbf68-269d-49d4-b42b-53d28e8ab826"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271"
source_hash: "b4065bc51625510dce352fabe11cd2746429a7301ed5b2012f270f075d9a7861"
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 2271 (20012002) — Health facilities: licensing and certification requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227199INT)
2. **04/25/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227198AMD)
3. **05/01/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227197AMD)
4. **05/15/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227196AMD)
5. **08/22/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227195AMD)
6. **09/21/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227193CHP)
7. **AB2271** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271)
8. **08/28/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2271&version=20010AB227194ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2271 Aanestad By Poochigian — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2271 Aanestad Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2271 Aanestad Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aanestad — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 752, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-12** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 8380.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5816.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-26** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file.
- **2002-08-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-21** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-06-20** 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`
- **2002-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-04** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6455.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 22). Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-15** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 7). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-01** 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`
- **2002-04-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-25** 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`
- **2002-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-04-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2002-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff9dbf68-269d-49d4-b42b-53d28e8ab826`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).