---
type: "Bill"
title: "Children's psychiatric residential treatment facilities."
description: "Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including a children's crisis residential program, by the State Department of Social Services, and defines a children's crisis residential program to mean a facility licensed as a short-term residential therapeutic program and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services, or a county mental health plan, to operate a children's crisis residential mental health program to serve children experiencing mental health crises as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2317"
citation: "California AB 2317 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children's psychiatric residential treatment facilities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ramos"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 40
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-02-16"
last_action: "2022-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88c41944-57bb-42f7-a96b-ae7205c6a2c9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317"
source_hash: "253c1892990085ba195ae2ab4513132c881157881522cb790205c268bda2e246"
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 2317 (20212022) — Children's psychiatric residential treatment facilities.

Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including a children's crisis residential program, by the State Department of Social Services, and defines a children's crisis residential program to mean a facility licensed as a short-term residential therapeutic program and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services, or a county mental health plan, to operate a children's crisis residential mental health program to serve children experiencing mental health crises as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231799INT)
2. **04/28/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231798AMD)
3. **06/06/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231797AMD)
4. **06/27/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231796AMD)
5. **08/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231795AMD)
6. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231793CHP)
7. **AB2317** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317)
8. **09/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2317&version=20210AB231794ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2317 Ramos By Portantino — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2317 Ramos Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2317 Ramos Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ramos — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2022-03-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-19** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4841.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-01** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** Measure version as amended on June 6 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2022-06-15** Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH, JUD., and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-16** Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-06-28** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-06-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-25** Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-25** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-29** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2022-08-29** Ordered to third reading.
- **2022-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5362.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-31** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-31** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
- **2022-08-31** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 31). `committee-passage`
- **2022-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 589, 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/88c41944-57bb-42f7-a96b-ae7205c6a2c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).