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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Congregate living health facilities."
+description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including congregate living health facilities. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a congregate living health facility not operated by a city and county servicing persons who are terminally ill or persons who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or both, that is located in a county with a population of 500,000 or more persons is prohibited from having more than 25 beds for the purpose of serving persons who are terminally ill."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "SB 177"
+citation: "California SB 177 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Congregate living health facilities."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Strickland"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2011-02-07"
+last_action: "2011-09-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73501e54-9959-461c-b135-1ed9d60c82b5"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177"
+source_hash: "ee03c9628130d2007fdbbf0f6104ce8e55dff3d5ed53f3805f1f73b44cd0515a"
+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 177 (20112012) — Congregate living health facilities.
+
+Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including congregate living health facilities. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. Under existing law, a congregate living health facility not operated by a city and county servicing persons who are terminally ill or persons who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, or both, that is located in a county with a population of 500,000 or more persons is prohibited from having more than 25 beds for the purpose of serving persons who are terminally ill.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/07/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177&version=20110SB17799INT)
+2. **05/25/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177&version=20110SB17798AMD)
+3. **08/18/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177&version=20110SB17797AMD)
+4. **09/26/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177&version=20110SB17795CHP)
+5. **SB177** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177)
+6. **09/01/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB177&version=20110SB17796ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SB 177 Strickland Senate Third Reading By WILLIAMS — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Unfinished Business SB177 Strickland Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Strickland — primary (person)
+- Williams — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2011-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
+- **2011-02-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-23** Set for hearing April 13.
+- **2011-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 675.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-04-21** Set for hearing May 2.
+- **2011-05-02** Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2011-05-03** Set for hearing May 9.
+- **2011-05-05** Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2011-05-13** Set for hearing May 23.
+- **2011-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1085.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1191.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2011-06-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2011-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2011-07-11** From consent calendar.
+- **2011-07-11** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2011-08-18** Read third time and amended. (Page 2447.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2011-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2505.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2011-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2011-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2144.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
+- **2011-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2011-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 331, Statutes of 2011.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73501e54-9959-461c-b135-1ed9d60c82b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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