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Bill	Health care services.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities and clinics, including primary care clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 789	California AB 789 (20212022)	bill	Health care services.	enacted	Low	7	26	7	2021-02-16	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/82076a4c-3438-478a-9122-2d280de34835	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB789	ed87bc07e860a09ef5dc277324f449f05827b57531b3ba2351c6a897513e8b13	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 789 (20212022) — Health care services.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities and clinics, including primary care clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB789 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB789 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 789 Low Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 789 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — author (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 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
• 2021-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (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 78. Noes 0. Page 1768.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 1717.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2237.). 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 76. Noes 0. Page 2631.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 470, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/82076a4c-3438-478a-9122-2d280de34835. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).