republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-262.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local health officers: communicable diseases."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to examine into the causes of communicable disease in man and domestic animals occurring or likely to occur in this state, and to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. Existing law requires a health officer knowing or having reason to believe that any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of the department, or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease exists, or has recently existed, within the territory under the local health officer's jurisdiction, to take measures to prevent the spread of the disease or occurrence of additional cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 262"
citation: "California AB 262 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local health officers: communicable diseases."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gloria"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad8c094f-9516-40df-a7bd-62078355b2af"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262"
source_hash: "522c162d5b608baa459054295fe9f2d408a1bf29d5a00beb78a6e38ccda5057c"
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 262 (20192020) — Local health officers: communicable diseases.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to examine into the causes of communicable disease in man and domestic animals occurring or likely to occur in this state, and to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions. Existing law requires a health officer knowing or having reason to believe that any case of the diseases made reportable by regulation of the department, or any other contagious, infectious or communicable disease exists, or has recently existed, within the territory under the local health officer's jurisdiction, to take measures to prevent the spread of the disease or occurrence of additional cases.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/24/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262&version=20190AB26299INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262&version=20190AB26298AMD)
3. **06/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262&version=20190AB26297AMD)
4. **10/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262&version=20190AB26295CHP)
5. **AB262** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262)
6. **09/06/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262&version=20190AB26296ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 262 Gloria Assembly Third Reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB262 Gloria et al. By Pan — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 262 Gloria Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gloria — primary (person)
- Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** From printer. May be heard in committee February 24.
- **2019-02-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-27** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1464.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-11** 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`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2439.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3014.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 798, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad8c094f-9516-40df-a7bd-62078355b2af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).