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Bill	Hospitals: seismic safety.	Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 908	California AB 908 (20172018)	bill	Hospitals: seismic safety.	enacted	Dababneh	8	28	4	2017-02-16	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/01eba68c-dc9c-460f-b0ab-5547f22e0e1c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908	ebfab8f5d9b859bc6aa36d02ecc683589d379e9b34fa489d579d837aa9ddd31a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 908 (20172018) — Hospitals: seismic safety.

Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/11/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB908 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB908 Dababneh et al. By Stern — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 908 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Dababneh — primary (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-06 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1392.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2768.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2017-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3273.)
• 2017-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 14). committee-passage
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3518.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 350, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01eba68c-dc9c-460f-b0ab-5547f22e0e1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).