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California AB 1544 (20092010) — Health facilities: licensure: outpatient clinic service.

Existing law provides for the licensure of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 03/04/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/23/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/17/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1544 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• Assembly 3rd Reading AB1544 Jones By Alquist — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1544 HEALTH Assembly Third Reading By JONES — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 1544 Jones Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)
• Adams — coauthor (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Audra Strickland — coauthor (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Carter — coauthor (person)
• Conway — coauthor (person)
• De La Torre — coauthor (person)
• Emmerson — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — author (person)
• Hayashi — coauthor (person)
• Hernandez — coauthor (person)
• Nava — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Perez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2009-03-04 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2009-03-06 From printer. May be heard in committee April 5.
• 2009-04-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-20 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2009-05-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-29 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-01 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1857.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2009-06-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2009-07-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-07-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-07-23 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-08-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2009-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-19 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, amended. To second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-09 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2317.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2009-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3301.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 543, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af27a964-4313-4e75-bee3-6a054db3bbe3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).