---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval."
description: "Existing law requires a nonprofit corporation, as defined, that operates or controls a health facility, as defined, or operates or controls a facility that provides similar health care to provide written notice to, and obtain the written consent of, the Attorney General prior to selling or otherwise disposing of a material amount of its assets to a for-profit corporation or entity, to a mutual benefit corporation or entity, or to another nonprofit corporation or entity."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 651"
citation: "California AB 651 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2017-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9a92013-13b9-43a4-8758-a27a62940d26"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651"
source_hash: "40200418e7d3f7d1d4ccbd16a857e6d8e34ffe120288e6dfd81d0f649e4d3ee0"
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 651 (20172018) — Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval.

Existing law requires a nonprofit corporation, as defined, that operates or controls a health facility, as defined, or operates or controls a facility that provides similar health care to provide written notice to, and obtain the written consent of, the Attorney General prior to selling or otherwise disposing of a material amount of its assets to a for-profit corporation or entity, to a mutual benefit corporation or entity, or to another nonprofit corporation or entity.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65199INT)
2. **03/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65198AMD)
3. **06/27/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65197AMD)
4. **07/18/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65196AMD)
5. **09/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65195AMD)
6. **10/14/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65193CHP)
7. **AB651** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651)
8. **09/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651&version=20170AB65194ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 651 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — **58–18** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB651 Muratsuchi By Lara — **27–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 651 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **52–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Muratsuchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (March 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-03-30** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 1539.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 2713.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-12** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3206.)
- **2017-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 3222.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 782, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9a92013-13b9-43a4-8758-a27a62940d26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).