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Bill	Hospitals: community benefits plan reporting.	Existing law requires private not-for-profit hospitals to, among other things, adopt and update a community benefits plan, as defined, for providing community benefits either alone, in conjunction with other health care providers, or through other organizational arrangements. Existing law requires these hospitals to annually submit their community benefits plans to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and, to the extent practicable, assign and report the economic value of community benefits provided. Existing law defines specified terms for purposes of these provisions and makes certain findings and declarations regarding the social obligation of private not-for-profit hospitals to provide community benefits in the public interest.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 204	California AB 204 (20192020)	bill	Hospitals: community benefits plan reporting.	enacted	Wood	6	24	8	2019-01-14	2019-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/3f46def3-c2dc-4664-9ffe-60930ab7a43f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB204	107e812579f441f48196ba80c1dfd3e86acf66431fdf24c0317fad7bd56b348c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 204 (20192020) — Hospitals: community benefits plan reporting.

Existing law requires private not-for-profit hospitals to, among other things, adopt and update a community benefits plan, as defined, for providing community benefits either alone, in conjunction with other health care providers, or through other organizational arrangements. Existing law requires these hospitals to annually submit their community benefits plans to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and, to the extent practicable, assign and report the economic value of community benefits provided. Existing law defines specified terms for purposes of these provisions and makes certain findings and declarations regarding the social obligation of private not-for-profit hospitals to provide community benefits in the public interest.

Version chain

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

1. 01/14/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/07/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB204 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB204 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 204 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 204 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-15 From printer. May be heard in committee February 14.
• 2019-02-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1922.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2711.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3252.)
• 2019-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3293.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 535, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3f46def3-c2dc-4664-9ffe-60930ab7a43f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).