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Bill	Health facilities: emergency physicians: emergency medical care: billing.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires each hospital, as a condition of licensure, to maintain written policies about discount payment and charity care for financially qualified patients, as defined. These policies are required to include, among other things, a section addressing eligibility criteria, as prescribed. Existing law requires each hospital to perform various functions in connection with the hospital charity care and discount pay policies, including providing patients with notice that contains information about the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and attempting to determine the availability of private or public health insurance coverage for each patient. Existing law also specifies billing and collection procedures to be followed by a hospital, its assignee, collection agency, or billing service.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 1503	California AB 1503 (20092010)	bill	Health facilities: emergency physicians: emergency medical care: billing.	enacted	Lieu	7	28	6	2009-02-27	2010-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/aeb39c72-424e-447b-8d2c-44afb6b7bd56	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1503	a84f94a825b67493883cb1d73067178557a3083d3683a3df2d3cc78c4d8dd18a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1503 (20092010) — Health facilities: emergency physicians: emergency medical care: billing.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires each hospital, as a condition of licensure, to maintain written policies about discount payment and charity care for financially qualified patients, as defined. These policies are required to include, among other things, a section addressing eligibility criteria, as prescribed. Existing law requires each hospital to perform various functions in connection with the hospital charity care and discount pay policies, including providing patients with notice that contains information about the hospital's discount payment and charity care policies, including information about eligibility and attempting to determine the availability of private or public health insurance coverage for each patient. Existing law also specifies billing and collection procedures to be followed by a hospital, its assignee, collection agency, or billing service.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/15/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1503 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1503 LIEU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1503 LIEU Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1503 Lieu By Alquist — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lieu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2009-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
• 2009-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2009-04-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-04-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-04-22 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
• 2009-05-28 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1737.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-07-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2010-06-16 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2010-08-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2010-08-03 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-19 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-20 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-24 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 4828.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-25 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6644.)
• 2010-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6652.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-09-03 Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2010-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 445, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aeb39c72-424e-447b-8d2c-44afb6b7bd56. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).