republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1095.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Desert Healthcare District."
description: "Existing law, the Local Health Care District Law, authorizes the organization and incorporation of local health care districts and specifies the powers of those districts, including, among other things, the power to establish, maintain, and operate, or provide assistance in the operation of, one or more health facilities or health services. Existing law authorizes the expansion of the Desert Healthcare District, as specified, and requires the board of directors of the district, following expansion, to adopt a resolution to increase the number of members of the district's board of directors from 5 to 7, and to appoint 2 members who are residents of the territory annexed by the district to fill the vacant positions. Existing law requires the board to designate 1 of those appointees to leave office when their successor takes office at noon on the first Friday in December next following the general district election and the other appointee to leave office 2 years thereafter."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1095"
citation: "California AB 1095 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Desert Healthcare District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ddf0d85-abe4-49b8-8a99-31d1066732a5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095"
source_hash: "8dcce15b2b80afa69919839a1ce6c4fb52bb1ec670e746b74d863f1091644f63"
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 1095 (20192020) — Desert Healthcare District.

Existing law, the Local Health Care District Law, authorizes the organization and incorporation of local health care districts and specifies the powers of those districts, including, among other things, the power to establish, maintain, and operate, or provide assistance in the operation of, one or more health facilities or health services. Existing law authorizes the expansion of the Desert Healthcare District, as specified, and requires the board of directors of the district, following expansion, to adopt a resolution to increase the number of members of the district's board of directors from 5 to 7, and to appoint 2 members who are residents of the territory annexed by the district to fill the vacant positions. Existing law requires the board to designate 1 of those appointees to leave office when their successor takes office at noon on the first Friday in December next following the general district election and the other appointee to leave office 2 years thereafter.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095&version=20190AB109599INT)
2. **04/08/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095&version=20190AB109598AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095&version=20190AB109596CHP)
4. **AB1095** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095)
5. **07/09/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1095&version=20190AB109597ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1095 Eduardo Garcia By Hueso — **35–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1095 Eduardo Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2019-03-07** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-09** Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1592.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 1991.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-09** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 126, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ddf0d85-abe4-49b8-8a99-31d1066732a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).