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Bill	Hospital equity reporting.	Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information to oversee various aspects of the health care market, including oversight of hospital facilities and community benefit plans. Existing law requires a private, not-for-profit hospital to adopt and update a community benefits plan that describes the activities the hospital has undertaken to address identified community needs within its mission and financial capacity, including health care services rendered to vulnerable populations. Existing law defines "vulnerable populations" for these purposes to mean a population that is exposed to medical or financial risk by virtue of being uninsured, underinsured, or eligible for Medi-Cal, Medicare, California Children's Services Program, or county indigent programs. Existing law requires a hospital to annually submit its community benefits plan to the department not later than 150 days after the hospital's fiscal year ends.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1204	California AB 1204 (20212022)	bill	Hospital equity reporting.	enacted	Wicks	10	31	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/ab35682a-92af-45a5-ad0f-10ac7c8c22c5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1204	2b4e16b20b159a9d2bf0443d8313abcbe1c1a792bce1e64f56fac5110e756052	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1204 (20212022) — Hospital equity reporting.

Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information to oversee various aspects of the health care market, including oversight of hospital facilities and community benefit plans. Existing law requires a private, not-for-profit hospital to adopt and update a community benefits plan that describes the activities the hospital has undertaken to address identified community needs within its mission and financial capacity, including health care services rendered to vulnerable populations. Existing law defines "vulnerable populations" for these purposes to mean a population that is exposed to medical or financial risk by virtue of being uninsured, underinsured, or eligible for Medi-Cal, Medicare, California Children's Services Program, or county indigent programs. Existing law requires a hospital to annually submit its community benefits plan to the department not later than 150 days after the hospital's fiscal year ends.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/09/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1204 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1204 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — 54–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1204 Wicks et al. By Leyva — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1204 WICKS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–19 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wicks — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 13). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 18. Page 1849.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 7). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2581.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 3081.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 751, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ab35682a-92af-45a5-ad0f-10ac7c8c22c5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).