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Bill	Emergency medical services: dispatch.	Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency to establish within its jurisdiction a basic emergency telephone system that includes, at a minimum, police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services. Existing law authorizes a public agency to incorporate private ambulance service into the system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 438	California SB 438 (20192020)	bill	Emergency medical services: dispatch.	enacted	Hertzberg	8	27	6	2019-02-21	2019-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/57c5f8b0-fbf2-41bb-810d-0d778f8511b2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB438	29bbff53089c7691e2a1115278223344ba43e0b7eee5175a484e7d9a71e8458c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 438 (20192020) — Emergency medical services: dispatch.

Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency to establish within its jurisdiction a basic emergency telephone system that includes, at a minimum, police, firefighting, and emergency medical and ambulance services. Existing law authorizes a public agency to incorporate private ambulance service into the system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/18/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/01/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB438 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 438 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By Eggman — 68–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB438 Hertzberg et al. — 32–4 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB438 Hertzberg et al. Concurrence — 33–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — principal coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on GOV. & F. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 713.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2019-04-22 April 24 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-04-23 Set for hearing May 1.
• 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 904.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 1208.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-13 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 July 3 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-06-27 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 68. Noes 4. Page 2952.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-04 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 2501.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 389, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57c5f8b0-fbf2-41bb-810d-0d778f8511b2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).