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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hospice: services to seriously ill patients."
+description: "Under the California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates persons or agencies that provide hospice, which is a type of interdisciplinary health care that includes palliative care to individuals experiencing the last phases of life due to the existence of a terminal disease and supportive care to the primary caregivers and family of the hospice patient. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2022, a licensee under the act to provide any of the authorized interdisciplinary hospice services, including palliative care, to a patient who has a serious illness."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SB 353"
+citation: "California SB 353 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Hospice: services to seriously ill patients."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2021-02-09"
+last_action: "2021-10-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10b5f3e3-74a3-4d20-992f-a66b5e5ab2b6"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353"
+source_hash: "0afaf32706fcc54dc2a76af88e81c8de46b0ad453b3ceb9da5d3553943e83a05"
+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 353 (20212022) — Hospice: services to seriously ill patients.
+
+Under the California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates persons or agencies that provide hospice, which is a type of interdisciplinary health care that includes palliative care to individuals experiencing the last phases of life due to the existence of a terminal disease and supportive care to the primary caregivers and family of the hospice patient. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2022, a licensee under the act to provide any of the authorized interdisciplinary hospice services, including palliative care, to a patient who has a serious illness.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/09/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353&version=20210SB35399INT)
+2. **07/15/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353&version=20210SB35398AMD)
+3. **10/04/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353&version=20210SB35396CHP)
+4. **SB353** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353)
+5. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB353&version=20210SB35397ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Consent Calendar SB353 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 353 Roth Senate Third Reading By Irwin — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roth — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-09** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-02-10** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
+- **2021-02-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
+- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
+- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
+- **2021-02-24** Set for hearing March 10.
+- **2021-03-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 457.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-09** Set for hearing April 19.
+- **2021-04-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-04-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 887.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-04-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2021-05-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-07-08** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Irwin.
+- **2021-07-08** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-07-15** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-07-15** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-08-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2408.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-08-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2021-08-23** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2021-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2243.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2021-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 488, 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/10b5f3e3-74a3-4d20-992f-a66b5e5ab2b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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