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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals: seismic compliance: O'Connor Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center."
description: "Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals. Existing law requires hospitals that are seeking an extension for their buildings to submit an application to the Department of Health Care Access and Information by April 1, 2019, subject to certain exceptions. Existing law requires that final seismic compliance be achieved by July 1, 2022, if the compliance is based on a replacement or retrofit plan, or by January 1, 2025, if the compliance is based on a rebuild plan."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 564"
citation: "California SB 564 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals: seismic compliance: O'Connor Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13cf5fbe-6cb8-44da-acef-f2190f8639c3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564"
source_hash: "54ed6cc7520af9495abf747aa401b592a44f5a3d1835e0eb11835a031c513038"
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 564 (20212022) — Hospitals: seismic compliance: O'Connor Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center.
Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals. Existing law requires hospitals that are seeking an extension for their buildings to submit an application to the Department of Health Care Access and Information by April 1, 2019, subject to certain exceptions. Existing law requires that final seismic compliance be achieved by July 1, 2022, if the compliance is based on a replacement or retrofit plan, or by January 1, 2025, if the compliance is based on a rebuild plan.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564&version=20210SB56499INT)
2. **03/23/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564&version=20210SB56498AMD)
3. **09/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564&version=20210SB56497AMD)
4. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564&version=20210SB56495CHP)
5. **SB564** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564)
6. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB564&version=20210SB56496ENR)
## Votes
- Consent Calendar SB564 — **380** (pass) · upper
- SB 564 Cortese Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- SB 564 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Low — **730** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB564 Cortese Concurrence — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Cortese — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** Set for hearing March 17.
- **2021-03-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 533.) (March 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-23** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2021-04-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 887.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2278.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-07-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-07-12** Withdrawn from engrossing and enrolling.
- **2021-07-12** Ordered to the Assembly.
- **2021-07-12** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2021-08-19** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Senate. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-01** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2815.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-08** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2524.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 388, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13cf5fbe-6cb8-44da-acef-f2190f8639c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).