republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1394.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "General acute care hospitals: suicide screening."
description: "Existing law licenses and regulates general acute care hospitals as a type of health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care that includes medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention upon appropriation of funds for those purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1394"
citation: "California AB 1394 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["General acute care hospitals: suicide screening."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2022-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d887b0ef-bf58-42d3-aad4-a081e3f1a3ff"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394"
source_hash: "0541850f1537312ae709eccadc34ba3e95567cb3334e38b4839b66c88031d76b"
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 1394 (20212022) — General acute care hospitals: suicide screening.

Existing law licenses and regulates general acute care hospitals as a type of health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care that includes medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law establishes the Office of Suicide Prevention upon appropriation of funds for those purposes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139499INT)
2. **01/03/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139496AMD)
3. **03/11/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139498AMD)
4. **04/05/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139497AMD)
5. **05/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139495AMD)
6. **06/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139494AMD)
7. **07/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139492CHP)
8. **AB1394** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394)
9. **07/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1394&version=20210AB139493ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar AB1394 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1394 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1394 Irwin Consent Calendar Second Day — **61–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Irwin — primary (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Coauthors revised.
- **2022-01-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-24** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 0. Page 3410.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-24** 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-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and ordered to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2022-06-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4434.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-06-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d887b0ef-bf58-42d3-aad4-a081e3f1a3ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).