republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1793.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public health: federal funding: public health emergencies."
description: "Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions, hospitals, clinics, emergency medical systems, and poison control centers of federal funding received for the prevention of, and response to, public health emergencies. Existing law provides that these procedures apply only when the specified entities are designated by a federal or state agency to manage the funds for public health preparedness and response to public health emergencies, pursuant to a specified federally approved plan. Existing law requires funds to be allocated to these entities through the use of agreements that are exempt from provisions that establish public contracting standards. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative as of September 1, 2012, and repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2013."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1793"
citation: "California AB 1793 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public health: federal funding: public health emergencies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yamada"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2012-02-21"
last_action: "2012-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ce70401-c723-4840-ab85-1882de3e4db5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1793"
source_hash: "d0f85eae0ab28595031353153d78d19b877d99c5ef98b1d8fabe817169ac252e"
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 AB 1793 (20112012) — Public health: federal funding: public health emergencies.

Existing law establishes procedures and requirements to govern the allocation to, and expenditure by, local health jurisdictions, hospitals, clinics, emergency medical systems, and poison control centers of federal funding received for the prevention of, and response to, public health emergencies. Existing law provides that these procedures apply only when the specified entities are designated by a federal or state agency to manage the funds for public health preparedness and response to public health emergencies, pursuant to a specified federally approved plan. Existing law requires funds to be allocated to these entities through the use of agreements that are exempt from provisions that establish public contracting standards. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative as of September 1, 2012, and repeals these provisions as of January 1, 2013.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1793&version=20110AB179399INT)
2. **07/24/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1793&version=20110AB179397CHP)
3. **AB1793** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1793)
4. **07/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1793&version=20110AB179398ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1793 YAMADA Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #15 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Yamada — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2012-03-01** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-27** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4675.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-07-05** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-07-06** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4321.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2012-07-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 166, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ce70401-c723-4840-ab85-1882de3e4db5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).