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Bill	Health care.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a skilled nursing facility to have a full-time, dedicated Infection Preventionist (IP) , who is a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1585	California AB 1585 (20212022)	bill	Health care.	enacted	Committee on Health	6	32	8	2021-03-11	2021-09-16	openstates	ocd-bill/38b2e747-ec0a-41a8-ba48-a4cea0ef753b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585	f7cfdb9ab389631f3af873605a23639f7e765bc6ba4810aa51db26d7d7fb911e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1585 (20212022) — Health care.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a skilled nursing facility to have a full-time, dedicated Infection Preventionist (IP) , who is a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 03/11/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/16/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1585 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1585 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By WOOD — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1585 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1585 HEALTH — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB1585 HEALTH — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Health — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-03-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-03-12 From printer. May be heard in committee April 11.
• 2021-03-18 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: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1253.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-07-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1805.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-05 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2021-07-08 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2021-07-08 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2021-07-08 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2021-08-18 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2021-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2246.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2638.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-09-16 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-16 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38b2e747-ec0a-41a8-ba48-a4cea0ef753b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).