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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a skilled nursing facility to have a full-time, dedicated Infection Preventionist (IP) , who is a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1585"
citation: "California AB 1585 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-03-11"
last_action: "2021-09-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38b2e747-ec0a-41a8-ba48-a4cea0ef753b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585"
source_hash: "f7cfdb9ab389631f3af873605a23639f7e765bc6ba4810aa51db26d7d7fb911e"
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 1585 (20212022) — Health care.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires a skilled nursing facility to have a full-time, dedicated Infection Preventionist (IP) , who is a registered nurse or licensed vocational nurse. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **03/11/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585&version=20210AB158599INT)
2. **04/05/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585&version=20210AB158598AMD)
3. **08/18/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585&version=20210AB158597AMD)
4. **09/16/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585&version=20210AB158595CHP)
5. **AB1585** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585)
6. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1585&version=20210AB158596ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1585 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By WOOD — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **100** (pass) · upper
- AB 1585 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — **770** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1585 HEALTH — **380** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1585 HEALTH — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Committee on Health — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-12** From printer. May be heard in committee April 11.
- **2021-03-18** 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`
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1253.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-06-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-07-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1805.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-07-05** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-07-08** Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
- **2021-07-08** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2021-07-08** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2021-08-18** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-08-18** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2246.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
- **2021-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2638.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-09-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38b2e747-ec0a-41a8-ba48-a4cea0ef753b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).