---
type: "Bill"
title: "Long-term health care facilities: payment source and resident census."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of long-term health care facilities, including, among others, skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1354"
citation: "California SB 1354 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Long-term health care facilities", "payment source and resident census"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wahab"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d262e6e9-9285-48ff-9800-ffe43a84c53a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354"
source_hash: "5378acb4326decd57206783dad42398f5584219ecf38753670f213723076bf77"
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 1354 (20232024) — Long-term health care facilities: payment source and resident census.

Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of long-term health care facilities, including, among others, skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135499INT)
2. **04/15/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135498AMD)
3. **04/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135497AMD)
4. **06/17/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135496AMD)
5. **08/19/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135495AMD)
6. **09/21/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135493CHP)
7. **SB1354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354)
8. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1354&version=20230SB135494ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **30–9** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1354 Wahab et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1354 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Wood — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wahab — primary (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2024-04-15** 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`
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 3756.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** May 6 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-05-07** Set for hearing May 13.
- **2024-05-13** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 4057.) 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`
- **2024-06-10** June 18 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2024-06-17** 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`
- **2024-06-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 15). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6659.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5591.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 339, 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/d262e6e9-9285-48ff-9800-ffe43a84c53a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).