republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-581.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Care facilities: retaliation."
description: "Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services, and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness, and residential care facilities for the elderly. Existing law authorizes any person to request an inspection of a facility by transmitting a request to the department alleging a facility violation of applicable law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 581"
citation: "California AB 581 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Care facilities: retaliation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ammiano"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aab4561e-597e-4002-8e3d-8a1c675c47e6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581"
source_hash: "849a60b10b7fabbafbc7b945bdde2b56ad0917b7911c4906932140facf978b11"
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 581 (20132014) — Care facilities: retaliation.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services, and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, residential care facilities for persons with chronic, life-threatening illness, and residential care facilities for the elderly. Existing law authorizes any person to request an inspection of a facility by transmitting a request to the department alleging a facility violation of applicable law.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58199INT)
2. **04/04/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58198AMD)
3. **04/22/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58197AMD)
4. **06/14/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58196AMD)
5. **09/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58194CHP)
6. **AB581** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581)
7. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB581&version=20130AB58195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 581 AMMIANO Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 581 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ammiano — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-04** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1342.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. 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 2581.). `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 295, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aab4561e-597e-4002-8e3d-8a1c675c47e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).