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Bill	Hospital Infant Feeding Act.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals providing maternity care to make available a breastfeeding consultant, or alternatively, to provide information to the mother on where to receive breastfeeding information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 502	California SB 502 (20112012)	bill	Hospital Infant Feeding Act.	enacted	Pavley	9	26	6	2011-02-17	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2dafac23-07cc-42a2-9fa4-6b8920350375	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB502	b0bffa83f422f92857aa2c7d57154c7e79b63defbae2de62958401c137bc750e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 502 (20112012) — Hospital Infant Feeding Act.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires all general acute care hospitals and special hospitals providing maternity care to make available a breastfeeding consultant, or alternatively, to provide information to the mother on where to receive breastfeeding information.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB502 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB502 Pavley Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–5 (pass) · lower
• SB 502 Pavley Senate Third Reading By MITCHELL — 56–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 30–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Pavley — primary (person)
• Alquist — coauthor (person)
• De León — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-03-23 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2011-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 675.) (April 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 6. Page 985.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-05-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-06-14 Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (June 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 23. Page 2636.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 2161.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 511, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2dafac23-07cc-42a2-9fa4-6b8920350375. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).