--- type: "Bill" title: "Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services." description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "SB 1300" citation: "California SB 1300 (20232024)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Health facility closure", "inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services", "public notice"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"] version_count: 8 action_count: 25 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-02-15" last_action: "2024-09-28" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4422521e-8670-4026-ba9a-f4a0037dcca8" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300" source_hash: "3cb5b750e0962ced786b207b6fd3729dc08c727401d980de08b1f8aac934b964" 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 1300 (20232024) — Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130099INT) 2. **03/19/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130098AMD) 3. **04/08/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130097AMD) 4. **06/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130096AMD) 5. **08/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130095AMD) 6. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130093CHP) 7. **SB1300** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300) 8. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130094ENR) ## Votes - 3rd Reading — **27–9** (pass) · upper - Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–2** (pass) · upper - SB 1300 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Jackson — **70–3** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–3** (pass) · lower - Unfinished Business SB1300 Cortese et al. Concurrence — **28–9** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Cortese — primary (person) - Caballero — coauthor (person) - Hurtado — coauthor (person) - Menjivar — coauthor (person) - Schiavo — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2024-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17. - **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-14** Set for hearing April 3. - **2024-03-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 3469.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-09** Set for hearing April 15. - **2024-04-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2024-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4048.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee` - **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-20** Ordered to third reading. - **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6503.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2024-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5512.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 894, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4422521e-8670-4026-ba9a-f4a0037dcca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).