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Bill	Health facilities: linen laundry.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing regulations prescribe specified processes and methods by which general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals are required to launder the linens used at those facilities. A violation of these provisions is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2679	California AB 2679 (20172018)	bill	Health facilities: linen laundry.	enacted	O'Donnell	8	25	7	2018-02-15	2018-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/d56d62f0-3e89-4ea8-be9b-178c67713b7c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2679	067ec182be9a642533b09b27eedd58e8dfb92631aead98996c4cd35264f575c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2679 (20172018) — Health facilities: linen laundry.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing regulations prescribe specified processes and methods by which general acute care hospitals and acute psychiatric hospitals are required to launder the linens used at those facilities. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/20/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2679 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2679 O'DONNELL Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2679 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2679 O'Donnell By Pan — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 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
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5006.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5971.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 7005.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 587, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d56d62f0-3e89-4ea8-be9b-178c67713b7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).