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type: "Bill"
title: "Skilled nursing facilities: deaths: reporting."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, defined to include skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing health facilities constitutes a crime. Existing law requires all skilled nursing facilities to adopt and implement an antimicrobial stewardship policy that is consistent with the antimicrobial stewardship guidelines developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or specified professional organizations. Existing law requires a health facility, as defined to exclude a skilled nursing facility, to report an adverse event to the department within 24 hours of detecting the event, including, among other things, specified patient deaths."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 2644"
citation: "California AB 2644 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Skilled nursing facilities: deaths: reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff367576-71a7-4b5e-93d0-e1ac79def65b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644"
source_hash: "7ab2b76e91b768671e2843b0ff198402c310bfc862267709ce6931dc3500375a"
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 2644 (20192020) — Skilled nursing facilities: deaths: reporting.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, defined to include skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing health facilities constitutes a crime. Existing law requires all skilled nursing facilities to adopt and implement an antimicrobial stewardship policy that is consistent with the antimicrobial stewardship guidelines developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or specified professional organizations. Existing law requires a health facility, as defined to exclude a skilled nursing facility, to report an adverse event to the department within 24 hours of detecting the event, including, among other things, specified patient deaths.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264499INT)
2. **05/20/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264498AMD)
3. **06/04/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264497AMD)
4. **07/14/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264496AMD)
5. **07/27/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264495AMD)
6. **08/05/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264494AMD)
7. **08/07/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264493AMD)
8. **09/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264491CHP)
9. **AB2644** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644)
10. **08/27/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2644&version=20190AB264492ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB2644 Wood et al. By Pan — **400** (pass) · upper
- AB 2644 Wood Assembly Third Reading — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **180** (pass) · lower
- AB 2644 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **740** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **80** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wood — primary (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2020-03-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-04-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-05-20** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-05-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-04** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4791.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-07-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-14** 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`
- **2020-07-27** 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`
- **2020-08-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2020-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2020-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4295.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2020-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5227.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2020-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 287, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff367576-71a7-4b5e-93d0-e1ac79def65b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).