--- type: "Bill" title: "Long-term health care facilities: inspections." description: "Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 (act) , 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 others, skilled nursing facilities. The act declares the intent of the Legislature to execute these inspections in the form of a single survey process, to the extent possible and permitted under federal law." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20212022" identifier: "AB 1907" citation: "California AB 1907 (20212022)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Long-term health care facilities: inspections."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"] version_count: 5 action_count: 26 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2022-02-09" last_action: "2022-09-13" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3747de9-1465-4370-85fd-f672cf1ed219" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907" source_hash: "8d4dbc38b90e111376c8d9f12ce701c5d56d56cf6eaf1acb151272859bd11215" 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 1907 (20212022) — Long-term health care facilities: inspections. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 (act) , 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 others, skilled nursing facilities. The act declares the intent of the Legislature to execute these inspections in the form of a single survey process, to the extent possible and permitted under federal law. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/09/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907&version=20210AB190799INT) 2. **08/18/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907&version=20210AB190798AMD) 3. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907&version=20210AB190796CHP) 4. **AB1907** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907) 5. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1907&version=20210AB190797ENR) ## Votes - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB1907 Bauer-Kahan By Rubio — **40–0** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading AB1907 Bauer-Kahan By Rubio — **37–0** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading AB1907 Bauer-Kahan By Rubio — **38–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper - AB 1907 Bauer-Kahan Consent Calendar Second Day — **68–0** (pass) · lower - AB 1907 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Bauer-Kahan — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2022-02-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2022-02-10** From printer. May be heard in committee March 12. - **2022-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2022-03-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2022-04-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2022-04-07** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2022-04-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4370.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2022-04-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2022-06-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2022-06-20** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2022-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2022-06-23** From Consent Calendar. - **2022-06-23** Ordered to third reading. - **2022-08-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4872.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2022-08-17** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Rubio. - **2022-08-17** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4882.) - **2022-08-18** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2022-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5004.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. - **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 277, Statutes of 2022. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d3747de9-1465-4370-85fd-f672cf1ed219`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).