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Bill	Residential care facilities for the elderly: fees and charges.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services, including, among other things, regulation of fees and charges. Existing law requires the admission agreement for a residential care facility for the elderly to contain specified elements. Under existing law, a violation of any of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 261	California AB 261 (20132014)	bill	Residential care facilities for the elderly: fees and charges.	enacted	Chesbro	6	22	6	2013-02-07	2013-09-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a0677104-091c-4c57-8473-0edf87d86556	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB261	2103b9acb6500bcc731704c3e93d70736baa17bbc3f8067225861fd682270038	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 261 (20132014) — Residential care facilities for the elderly: fees and charges.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services, including, among other things, regulation of fees and charges. Existing law requires the admission agreement for a residential care facility for the elderly to contain specified elements. Under existing law, a violation of any of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/07/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/01/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/18/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/09/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB261 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/23/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 261 CHESBRO Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB261 Chesbro By Wolk — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 261 CHESBRO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chesbro — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-07 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-08 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-17 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-04-18 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1121.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-04-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2013-06-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2013-08-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-19 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2578.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
• 2013-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0677104-091c-4c57-8473-0edf87d86556. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).