republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20072008/ab-949.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Residential care facilities for the elderly: resident transfers."
description: "Residential care facilities for the elderly: resident transfers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 949"
citation: "California AB 949 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Residential care facilities for the elderly: resident transfers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krekorian"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 32
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-10-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/501f0d1c-3bef-4f0e-9195-4defe67f1d43"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949"
source_hash: "d9b3ae9d2b75ed9207058447df868dc688421824f1db39738a6c7817ddf2f71c"
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 949 (20072008) — Residential care facilities for the elderly: resident transfers.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94999INT)
2. **03/29/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94998AMD)
3. **04/10/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94997AMD)
4. **04/26/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94996AMD)
5. **06/06/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94995AMD)
6. **07/12/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94994AMD)
7. **08/01/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94993AMD)
8. **09/05/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94992AMD)
9. **10/14/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94990CHP)
10. **AB949** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949)
11. **09/20/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB949&version=20070AB94991ENR)

## Votes

- AB 949 KREKORIAN Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB949 Krekorian By Alquist — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 949 Krekorian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Krekorian — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-26** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Human Services Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Human Services Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 31. Page 1527.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-06-20** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2007-07-11** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-12** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-08-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-08-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) . `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-05** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 15. Page 2527.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2007-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 47. Noes 30. Page 3320.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-27** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 686, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/501f0d1c-3bef-4f0e-9195-4defe67f1d43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).