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Bill	Health and care facilities: missing patients and participants.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of the health facilities, as defined. Existing law requires certain types of health facilities, such as acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, to develop, implement, and comply with a patient safety plan for the purpose of improving the health and safety of patients and reducing preventable patient safety events, as specified. A person who violates the provisions governing health facilities is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 620	California AB 620 (20132014)	bill	Health and care facilities: missing patients and participants.	enacted	Buchanan	11	32	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/3b2b841d-3a3d-4bc4-91ec-9e2da08b26b4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB620	61d09ed10fe0bb2e00167af4521ee322335a74e6d16d7d4e9d2056e55ffe9c63	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 620 (20132014) — Health and care facilities: missing patients and participants.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of the health facilities, as defined. Existing law requires certain types of health facilities, such as acute care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, to develop, implement, and comply with a patient safety plan for the purpose of improving the health and safety of patients and reducing preventable patient safety events, as specified. A person who violates the provisions governing health facilities is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB620 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB620 Buchanan By DeSaulnier — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 620 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 620 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Human Services. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2013-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-15 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1342.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2013-06-06 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
• 2013-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-11 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-12 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2262.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3079.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2013-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 674, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b2b841d-3a3d-4bc4-91ec-9e2da08b26b4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).