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Bill	Emergency medical services: civil liability.	Under existing law, a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law further provides that a person who has completed a basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation course that complies with specified standards, and who in good faith renders emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene of an emergency is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law provides that a health care provider, including any licensed clinic, health dispensary, or health facility, is not liable for professional negligence or malpractice for any occurrence or result solely on the basis that the occurrence or result was caused by the natural course of a disease or condition, or was the natural or expected result of reasonable treatment rendered for the disease or condition.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 633	California AB 633 (20132014)	bill	Emergency medical services: civil liability.	enacted	Salas	11	27	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/78fa2cab-0d64-4133-a870-dd6564cf615c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB633	5db6ac0a3c09d3e624516e502851765d9a31248de76968bdd748ff7607143c8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 633 (20132014) — Emergency medical services: civil liability.

Under existing law, a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency is not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law further provides that a person who has completed a basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation course that complies with specified standards, and who in good faith renders emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the scene of an emergency is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission, except as specified. Existing law provides that a health care provider, including any licensed clinic, health dispensary, or health facility, is not liable for professional negligence or malpractice for any occurrence or result solely on the basis that the occurrence or result was caused by the natural course of a disease or condition, or was the natural or expected result of reasonable treatment rendered for the disease or condition.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/13/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/20/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/08/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/05/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB633 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 633 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB633 Salas By Torres — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 633 SALAS Assembly Third Reading — 67–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Bocanegra — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
• Logue — principal coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (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.
• 2013-03-19 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-03-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2013-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2013-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 1473.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-10 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
• 2013-06-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-08 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2109.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-04 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 6 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2921.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 591, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/78fa2cab-0d64-4133-a870-dd6564cf615c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).