republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-1882.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals: seismic safety."
description: "The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Care Access and Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act requires an owner of a general acute care inpatient hospital, no later than January 1, 2030, to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with the regulations and standards developed pursuant to the act, or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those regulations and standards. Existing law requires, within 60 days following the department's approval of a report relating to a general acute care hospital owner's plan to comply with those regulations and standards, a general acute hospital building owner to include all pertinent information regarding the building's expected earthquake performance in emergency training, response, and recovery plans, and in capital outlay plans."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1882"
citation: "California AB 1882 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals: seismic safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robert Rivas"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-08"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6041d28d-3c18-4215-9b49-0dcc0225f104"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882"
source_hash: "86c35f7d11badab7981f4ebd64f852c012df6ac49bab6f6615241f3fff0352c2"
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 1882 (20212022) — Hospitals: seismic safety.

The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Care Access and Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act requires an owner of a general acute care inpatient hospital, no later than January 1, 2030, to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with the regulations and standards developed pursuant to the act, or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those regulations and standards. Existing law requires, within 60 days following the department's approval of a report relating to a general acute care hospital owner's plan to comply with those regulations and standards, a general acute hospital building owner to include all pertinent information regarding the building's expected earthquake performance in emergency training, response, and recovery plans, and in capital outlay plans.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188299INT)
2. **04/28/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188298AMD)
3. **06/13/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188297AMD)
4. **08/04/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188296AMD)
5. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188294CHP)
6. **AB1882** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882)
7. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1882&version=20210AB188295ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1882 Robert Rivas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–10** (pass) · lower
- AB 1882 Robert Rivas Assembly Third Reading — **50–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1882 Robert Rivas et al. By Leyva — **31–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robert Rivas — primary (person)
- Nazarian — author (person)
- Rodriguez — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2022-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-04-06** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 17. Page 4704.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5. Page 5098.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-25** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 10.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 584, 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/6041d28d-3c18-4215-9b49-0dcc0225f104`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).