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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospitals: family caregivers."
+description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, as specified. Existing law requires hospitals, among other things, to have a written discharge planning policy and process that requires appropriate arrangements to be made for posthospital care. A violation of those provisions is a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "SB 675"
+citation: "California SB 675 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Hospitals: family caregivers."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2015-02-27"
+last_action: "2015-10-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8f4df57-b675-4b64-bd8e-eee82f7484a2"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675"
+source_hash: "ed7aae829a17eb41245f89d0c24a40ab0ab4774ee692f8fef70b2698c3d1f12b"
+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 675 (20152016) — Hospitals: family caregivers.
+
+Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate health facilities, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, as specified. Existing law requires hospitals, among other things, to have a written discharge planning policy and process that requires appropriate arrangements to be made for posthospital care. A violation of those provisions is a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67599INT)
+2. **04/21/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67598AMD)
+3. **06/23/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67597AMD)
+4. **07/16/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67596AMD)
+5. **10/04/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67594CHP)
+6. **SB675** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675)
+7. **09/01/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB675&version=20150SB67595ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 675 Liu Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent #9 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Liu — primary (person)
+- Wolk — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
+- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2015-03-12** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-15** Set for hearing April 29.
+- **2015-04-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 862.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-05-08** Set for hearing May 18.
+- **2015-05-18** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2015-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1068.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2015-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-07** July 7 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-19** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2638.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-08-27** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2015-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2015-09-01** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2379.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2015-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
+- **2015-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 494, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8f4df57-b675-4b64-bd8e-eee82f7484a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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