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Bill	General acute care hospitals: drug screening.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 864	California SB 864 (20212022)	bill	General acute care hospitals: drug screening.	enacted	Melendez	7	25	5	2022-01-20	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/968efc51-f091-4498-a025-408d2f74e043	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB864	41d32bc1faf143a1f6293e4d375a9ace4a73d73696320eaa7897e9d8f12fb7ae	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 864 (20212022) — General acute care hospitals: drug screening.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, 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. 01/20/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/14/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB864 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/08/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 864 Melendez Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB864 Melendez et al. — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Melendez — primary (person)
• Bates — author (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Choi — coauthor (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Flora — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Grove — coauthor (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Seyarto — coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-01-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 20.
• 2022-02-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-02-07 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2022-02-07 (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
• 2022-02-07 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
• 2022-02-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-03-11 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2022-03-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3203.) (March 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-03-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2022-04-18 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-04-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3643.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-12 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 Coauthors revised.
• 2022-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5756.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-04 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2022-08-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 169, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/968efc51-f091-4498-a025-408d2f74e043. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).