---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing care contracts: cancellation: payments."
description: "Existing law requires a continuing care retirement facility, as defined, to possess a certificate of authority issued by the State Department of Social Services before it can enter into a continuing care contract, as defined. Existing law requires that a continuing care contract be in writing and contain specified information. Existing law provides that a continuing care contract may be canceled without cause by written notice from either party within 90 days of the resident's initial occupancy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 939"
citation: "California SB 939 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Continuing care contracts: cancellation: payments."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-03"
last_action: "2016-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37676464-44e5-41f2-bf3a-74e2c6214b50"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939"
source_hash: "2f2b446827f4a254855cc9b6497fed69a1998b0c3939028b19102558750c2b09"
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 939 (20152016) — Continuing care contracts: cancellation: payments.

Existing law requires a continuing care retirement facility, as defined, to possess a certificate of authority issued by the State Department of Social Services before it can enter into a continuing care contract, as defined. Existing law requires that a continuing care contract be in writing and contain specified information. Existing law provides that a continuing care contract may be canceled without cause by written notice from either party within 90 days of the resident's initial occupancy.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93999INT)
2. **04/14/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93998AMD)
3. **06/08/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93997AMD)
4. **06/16/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93996AMD)
5. **07/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93994CHP)
6. **SB939** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939)
7. **07/05/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB939&version=20150SB93995ENR)

## Votes

- SB 939 Monning Senate Third Reading By BROWN — **50–23** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB939 Monning Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Aging and Long-Term Care] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-03** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-04** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-31** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3518.) (April 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 3576.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 50. Noes 23. Page 5517.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-27** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-06-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4637.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-07-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 112, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37676464-44e5-41f2-bf3a-74e2c6214b50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).