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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals: seismic safety."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 908"
citation: "California AB 908 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals: seismic safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dababneh"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/01eba68c-dc9c-460f-b0ab-5547f22e0e1c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908"
source_hash: "ebfab8f5d9b859bc6aa36d02ecc683589d379e9b34fa489d579d837aa9ddd31a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90899INT)
2. **04/06/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90898AMD)
3. **06/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90897AMD)
4. **07/11/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90896AMD)
5. **09/07/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90895AMD)
6. **09/28/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90893CHP)
7. **AB908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908)
8. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB908&version=20170AB90894ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **110** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB908 Dababneh et al. By Stern — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 908 DABABNEH Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/01eba68c-dc9c-460f-b0ab-5547f22e0e1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).