republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1710.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing home administrators: fees and fines."
description: "Existing law, the Nursing Home Administrators' Act, provides for the licensing of nursing home administrators by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prescribes specified licensing fees, and requires that the fees be adjusted annually, as directed by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, by an amount not to exceed the California Consumer Price Index, as specified. Existing law provides for the issuance of citations and administrative fines for the violation of any state or federal statute or regulation governing licensed nursing home administrators. Existing law requires that these fees and associated fines be deposited in the Nursing Home Administrator's State License Examining Fund, a continuously appropriated fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1710"
citation: "California AB 1710 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Nursing home administrators: fees and fines."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Yamada"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2012-02-15"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53ad5595-1f34-4d3f-a1f3-d04688ec9994"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710"
source_hash: "504f5372043303ef30cb4fb8499043143506f6f4eeb41b28055fbd0b6fa85630"
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 1710 (20112012) — Nursing home administrators: fees and fines.

Existing law, the Nursing Home Administrators' Act, provides for the licensing of nursing home administrators by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prescribes specified licensing fees, and requires that the fees be adjusted annually, as directed by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, by an amount not to exceed the California Consumer Price Index, as specified. Existing law provides for the issuance of citations and administrative fines for the violation of any state or federal statute or regulation governing licensed nursing home administrators. Existing law requires that these fees and associated fines be deposited in the Nursing Home Administrator's State License Examining Fund, a continuously appropriated fund.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171099INT)
2. **04/10/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171098AMD)
3. **04/26/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171097AMD)
4. **08/13/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171096AMD)
5. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171094CHP)
6. **AB1710** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710)
7. **08/29/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1710&version=20110AB171095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1710 Yamada By DeSaulnier — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- AB 1710 YAMADA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **50–25** (pass) · lower
- AB 1710 YAMADA Assembly Third Reading — **47–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Yamada — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2012-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2012-02-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-04-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 25. Page 4672.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 4585.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 25. Page 6271.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 672, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53ad5595-1f34-4d3f-a1f3-d04688ec9994`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).