republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-322.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facilities: inspections: employee reporting."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits a health facility from discriminating or retaliating against a patient, employee, member of the medical staff, or other health care worker of the health facility because that person has presented a grievance, complaint, or report to the facility, or has initiated, participated, or cooperated in an investigation or administrative proceeding related to the quality of care, services, or conditions at the facility. Existing law makes a person who willfully violates these provisions guilty of a misdemeanor and makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 322"
citation: "California SB 322 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facilities: inspections: employee reporting."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bradford"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-07-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/feb38046-cd46-4897-b996-1ffa6ac2f541"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB322"
source_hash: "e941aec4338e6118adb340594d9bbce5b1c5834fd3a62d59198c80f1bf0e6f3b"
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 322 (20192020) — Health facilities: inspections: employee reporting.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits a health facility from discriminating or retaliating against a patient, employee, member of the medical staff, or other health care worker of the health facility because that person has presented a grievance, complaint, or report to the facility, or has initiated, participated, or cooperated in an investigation or administrative proceeding related to the quality of care, services, or conditions at the facility. Existing law makes a person who willfully violates these provisions guilty of a misdemeanor and makes a violation of these provisions subject to a civil penalty.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB322&version=20190SB32299INT)
2. **07/10/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB322&version=20190SB32297CHP)
3. **SB322** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB322)
4. **07/01/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB322&version=20190SB32298ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 322 Bradford Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bradford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2019-02-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Set for hearing March 27.
- **2019-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 490.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2019-04-22** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 819.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2459.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-27** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-07-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 72, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/feb38046-cd46-4897-b996-1ffa6ac2f541`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).