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Bill	Health facilities: special services.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits a health facility from providing a special service without the approval of the department. Existing law defines a "special service" to mean a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the department and for which the department has established special standards for quality of care.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1974	California AB 1974 (20132014)	bill	Health facilities: special services.	enacted	Quirk	8	25	7	2014-02-19	2014-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/51bc582c-8641-4b2d-8321-4a9e031c8588	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974	e5d7b1092a6a3e44a26cd42a34764b2e766fd135525862442c5f3440086825d5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1974 (20132014) — Health facilities: special services.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits a health facility from providing a special service without the approval of the department. Existing law defines a "special service" to mean a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the department and for which the department has established special standards for quality of care.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/05/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1974 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/13/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Be referred to Committee on Health. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1974 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1974 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Quirk — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2014-04-07 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2014-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5111.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-06-10 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-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4378.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5959.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 288, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51bc582c-8641-4b2d-8321-4a9e031c8588. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).