republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-407.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure."
description: "Existing law contains provisions relating to supervision of continuing care contracts, including requirements governing continuing care communities and contracts. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to regulate activity relating to continuing care contracts, and requires that continuing care retirement communities maintain an environment that enhances residents' independence and self-determination and in that regard imposes various requirements on a care provider. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of those contracts and requirements, and imposes specified civil and criminal penalties for violations of those provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 407"
citation: "California AB 407 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-23"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2711f5e6-4bd0-4e29-b633-e9e3067ef87c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407"
source_hash: "c28d03b909d551fb08f872a7902cda817d41432365c26b521dec34f60f0dc83a"
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 407 (20092010) — Continuing care contracts: retirement communities: closure.

Existing law contains provisions relating to supervision of continuing care contracts, including requirements governing continuing care communities and contracts. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to regulate activity relating to continuing care contracts, and requires that continuing care retirement communities maintain an environment that enhances residents' independence and self-determination and in that regard imposes various requirements on a care provider. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of those contracts and requirements, and imposes specified civil and criminal penalties for violations of those provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40799INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40798AMD)
3. **04/21/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40797AMD)
4. **09/01/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40796AMD)
5. **09/03/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40795AMD)
6. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40793CHP)
7. **AB407** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407)
8. **09/16/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB407&version=20090AB40794ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB407 Beall By Alquist — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 407 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 407 Beall Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
- Eng — author (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Price — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-20** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1356.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-22** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-02** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-07-09** To third reading.
- **2009-09-01** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-03** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2316.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2009-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3286.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 442, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2711f5e6-4bd0-4e29-b633-e9e3067ef87c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).