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Bill	Health facilities: critical care units: critical care unit program flexibility.	Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, and requires the department to define specified bed classifications for health facilities, including general acute care, intermediate care, and specialized care, among others. Existing law generally authorizes the department or the Department of Health Care Access and Information to permit program flexibility as to various prescribed standards relating to a health facility's physical plant or staffing as long as statutory requirements are met and the program flexibility has prior written approval. A person who violates specified licensing provisions related to these health facilities is guilty of a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1422	California AB 1422 (20212022)	bill	Health facilities: critical care units: critical care unit program flexibility.	enacted	Gabriel	10	31	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b68b451e-5530-4b1f-8c17-b450d0398960	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1422	6389d71ca975fa1b4c4441f704e734a7bf61fb9e7dd94b7cf1db4a08e9b5b8c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1422 (20212022) — Health facilities: critical care units: critical care unit program flexibility.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, and requires the department to define specified bed classifications for health facilities, including general acute care, intermediate care, and specialized care, among others. Existing law generally authorizes the department or the Department of Health Care Access and Information to permit program flexibility as to various prescribed standards relating to a health facility's physical plant or staffing as long as statutory requirements are met and the program flexibility has prior written approval. A person who violates specified licensing provisions related to these health facilities is guilty of a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/08/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1422 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1422 Gabriel et al. By Leyva — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1422 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — 57–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1422 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 59–18 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gabriel — primary (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Stone — 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
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-12 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
• 2021-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-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
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 18. Page 1794.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, 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
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. 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
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2531.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 18. Page 2979.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 716, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b68b451e-5530-4b1f-8c17-b450d0398960. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).