republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-753.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cognitively impaired adults: caregiver resource centers."
description: "Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services and the Statewide Resources Consultant administer a program to provide various services to brain-impaired adults and their families and caregivers. Existing law requires the director to contract with a nonprofit community agency meeting prescribed criteria to act as the Statewide Resources Consultant, and prescribes the duties of the consultant. Existing law also requires the director to contract with nonprofit community resource agencies to establish regionally based resource centers to ensure the existence of an array of appropriate programs and services for brain-impaired adults."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 753"
citation: "California AB 753 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cognitively impaired adults: caregiver resource centers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lowenthal"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-21"
last_action: "2013-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a81ef2ef-7314-4fe9-87bc-c6f26f28928d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753"
source_hash: "e8518f80fc990e979365aab0075f34195113867aaf9e1ad93c69b62034db9a69"
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 753 (20132014) — Cognitively impaired adults: caregiver resource centers.

Under existing law, the Director of Health Care Services and the Statewide Resources Consultant administer a program to provide various services to brain-impaired adults and their families and caregivers. Existing law requires the director to contract with a nonprofit community agency meeting prescribed criteria to act as the Statewide Resources Consultant, and prescribes the duties of the consultant. Existing law also requires the director to contract with nonprofit community resource agencies to establish regionally based resource centers to ensure the existence of an array of appropriate programs and services for brain-impaired adults.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753&version=20130AB75399INT)
2. **04/18/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753&version=20130AB75398AMD)
3. **06/18/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753&version=20130AB75397AMD)
4. **10/10/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753&version=20130AB75395CHP)
5. **AB753** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753)
6. **09/05/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB753&version=20130AB75396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Amend, and do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Aging and Long€term Care with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 753 LOWENTHAL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 753 LOWENTHAL Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowenthal — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1477.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **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 HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-08** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2013-08-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-26** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1993.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2779.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 708, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a81ef2ef-7314-4fe9-87bc-c6f26f28928d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).