---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential care facilities for the elderly: liability insurance."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services, including requiring, as a condition of licensure, bonds issued by a surety company for a licensee that handles the moneys of a person in the facility. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1523"
citation: "California AB 1523 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential care facilities for the elderly: liability insurance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-01-17"
last_action: "2014-08-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e677194-9e94-42a1-b04d-bfe2c6a1e2e3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523"
source_hash: "8f7bdbeb107c4dfb7ec79cf89bd86d09b2bd11e2ce7f6417ed3668b0895a49f1"
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 1523 (20132014) — Residential care facilities for the elderly: liability insurance.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services, including requiring, as a condition of licensure, bonds issued by a surety company for a licensee that handles the moneys of a person in the facility. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/17/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152399INT)
2. **04/01/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152398AMD)
3. **06/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152397AMD)
4. **06/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152396AMD)
5. **08/15/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152394CHP)
6. **AB1523** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523)
7. **08/06/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1523&version=20130AB152395ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1523 ATKINS Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1523 ATKINS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atkins — primary (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Corbett — coauthor (person)
- Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Maienschein — principal coauthor (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
- Weber — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-01-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-01-21** From printer. May be heard in committee February 20.
- **2014-02-06** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 4953.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-23** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4143.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 5839.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-08-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 205, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e677194-9e94-42a1-b04d-bfe2c6a1e2e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).