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type: "Bill"
title: "Hospitals: seismic safety compliance."
description: "(1) Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with specified seismic safety standards or to seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those seismic safety standards. Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to issue a written notice upon compliance with those requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 869"
citation: "California AB 869 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospitals", "seismic safety compliance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0dcb466f-cc0e-4cec-93c7-de75c4e4d10b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869"
source_hash: "0edbdb031f38a35c19f4b05aef7246856ef5ce50c8027059ace969ec0460ba9d"
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 869 (20232024) — Hospitals: seismic safety compliance.
(1) Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with specified seismic safety standards or to seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those seismic safety standards. Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to issue a written notice upon compliance with those requirements.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86999INT)
2. **03/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86998AMD)
3. **06/18/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86996AMD)
4. **06/20/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86997AMD)
5. **06/27/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86995AMD)
6. **08/15/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86994AMD)
7. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86993AMD)
8. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86991CHP)
9. **AB869** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869)
10. **09/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB869&version=20230AB86992ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended — **60** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB869 Wood et al. By Roth — **380** (pass) · upper
- AB 869 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **760** (pass) · lower
- AB 869 Wood Assembly Third Reading — **800** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **110** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **140** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Wood — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — author (person)
- Grove — coauthor (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** 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`
- **2023-03-08** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-22** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1879.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-20** 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`
- **2023-06-27** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-07-10** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-06-18** 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`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2024-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 801, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0dcb466f-cc0e-4cec-93c7-de75c4e4d10b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).