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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health facilities: special services."
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description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits a health facility from providing a special service without the approval of the department. Existing law defines a \"special service\" to mean a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the department and for which the department has established special standards for quality of care."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20132014"
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identifier: "AB 1974"
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citation: "California AB 1974 (20132014)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Health facilities: special services."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 25
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2014-02-19"
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last_action: "2014-08-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51bc582c-8641-4b2d-8321-4a9e031c8588"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974"
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source_hash: "e5d7b1092a6a3e44a26cd42a34764b2e766fd135525862442c5f3440086825d5"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 1974 (20132014) — Health facilities: special services.
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Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and prohibits a health facility from providing a special service without the approval of the department. Existing law defines a "special service" to mean a functional division, department, or unit of a health facility that is organized, staffed, and equipped to provide a specific type of patient care and that has been identified by regulations of the department and for which the department has established special standards for quality of care.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/19/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197499INT)
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2. **04/01/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197498AMD)
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3. **05/01/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197497AMD)
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4. **06/10/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197496AMD)
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5. **08/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197495AMD)
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6. **08/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197493CHP)
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7. **AB1974** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974)
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8. **08/13/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1974&version=20130AB197494ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- Be referred to Committee on Health. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1974 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1974 QUIRK Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
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- Consent Calendar 2nd — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Quirk — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2014-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2014-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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- **2014-03-03** Referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-04-07** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2014-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2014-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5111.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2014-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
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- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4378.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
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- **2014-08-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2014-08-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5959.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2014-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2014-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2014-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 288, Statutes of 2014.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51bc582c-8641-4b2d-8321-4a9e031c8588`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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