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Bill	Hospitals: language assistance services.	(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires those hospitals to adopt and review annually a policy for providing language assistance services to patients with language or communication barriers, as defined. Existing law requires a hospital to annually transmit to the department a copy of its updated policy and to include a description of its efforts to ensure adequate and speedy communication between patients with language or communication barriers and staff.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 389	California AB 389 (20152016)	bill	Hospitals: language assistance services.	enacted	Chau	8	25	8	2015-02-18	2015-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/92519c8e-8ec1-4068-bae2-832898cf507c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB389	d8f193a59b5452abe58c4fb70f353bb0e89d28ff3afb0c6ec65187b95e6b1301	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 389 (20152016) — Hospitals: language assistance services.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires those hospitals to adopt and review annually a policy for providing language assistance services to patients with language or communication barriers, as defined. Existing law requires a hospital to annually transmit to the department a copy of its updated policy and to include a description of its efforts to ensure adequate and speedy communication between patients with language or communication barriers and staff.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/09/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB389 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 389 CHAU Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 389 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB389 Chau By Pan — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 7). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-04-09 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1223.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-06-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-29 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2581.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2990.)
• 2015-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3013.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 327, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92519c8e-8ec1-4068-bae2-832898cf507c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).