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type: "Bill"
title: "Health."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to approve or deny an application submitted by a general acute care hospital or an acute psychiatric hospital to the department's centralized applications unit within specified deadlines and further requires the department to develop a centralized applications advice program and an automated application system. Existing law provides that the resources necessary to implement these requirements be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "California SB 78 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/160611cb-cd74-4105-bd63-3cdb8ca7cae3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78"
source_hash: "80a0cf69ef67d07f915d69424a01c367598ed6e4961520d5939f0e56954a19f6"
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 SB 78 (20192020) — Health.
(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to approve or deny an application submitted by a general acute care hospital or an acute psychiatric hospital to the department's centralized applications unit within specified deadlines and further requires the department to develop a centralized applications advice program and an automated application system. Existing law provides that the resources necessary to implement these requirements be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Internal Departmental Quality Improvement Account.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/10/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78&version=20190SB7899INT)
2. **06/18/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78&version=20190SB7898AMD)
3. **06/27/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78&version=20190SB7896CHP)
4. **SB78** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78)
5. **06/26/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB78&version=20190SB7897ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading SB78 B. & F.R. — **279** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB78 B. & F.R. (Mitchell) Concurrence — **2811** (pass) · upper
- SB 78 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By TING — **5714** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 10.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Withdrawn from committee. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 582.)
- **2019-04-08** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 664.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-06-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-06-24** Assembly Rule 63 and 96 suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 8. Page 2390.)
- **2019-06-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 2397.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-24** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-06-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 11. Page 1724.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 38, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/160611cb-cd74-4105-bd63-3cdb8ca7cae3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).