---
type: "Bill"
title: "Skilled nursing facilities: unpaid penalties: related parties."
description: "The Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate long-term health care facilities and to establish an inspection and reporting system to ensure that long-term health care facilities are in compliance with state statutes and regulations. The term \"long-term health care facility\" includes, among other types of facilities, a skilled nursing facility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1042"
citation: "California AB 1042 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Skilled nursing facilities: unpaid penalties: related parties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c16449f-a0ac-4931-b0f7-9c021272f378"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042"
source_hash: "c338a1a5d1eafcc7ec0fdf4bbb91eae1d9bc7587bbd37d0e4b40497a780ad971"
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 1042 (20212022) — Skilled nursing facilities: unpaid penalties: related parties.

The Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate long-term health care facilities and to establish an inspection and reporting system to ensure that long-term health care facilities are in compliance with state statutes and regulations. The term "long-term health care facility" includes, among other types of facilities, a skilled nursing facility.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104299INT)
2. **03/25/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104298AMD)
3. **06/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104297AMD)
4. **07/06/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104296AMD)
5. **08/16/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104295AMD)
6. **09/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104294AMD)
7. **10/04/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104292CHP)
8. **AB1042** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042)
9. **09/14/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1042&version=20210AB104293ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1042 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Rubio Reconsider — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1042 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Rubio — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 1042 Jones-Sawyer Assembly Third Reading — **58–16** (pass) · lower
- AB 1042 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1042 Jones-Sawyer et al. By Rubio — **29–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2021-03-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (April 28). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 1532.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-06-15** 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-06** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-08-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-23** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2335.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-02** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Rubio.
- **2021-09-02** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2339.)
- **2021-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2569.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2021-09-09** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
- **2021-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 3070.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2021-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 475, 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/3c16449f-a0ac-4931-b0f7-9c021272f378`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).