republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-1465.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health."
description: "(1) Existing law prohibits any private or public organization, political subdivision of the state, or other government agency within the state from providing or arranging for skilled nursing services to patients in the home without first obtaining a home health agency license, as defined, from the State Department of Public Health. Existing law establishes the requirements for licensure as a home health agency. Existing law requires the department to license a home health agency that, among other things, is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or the Community Health Accreditation Program and the accrediting organization forwards to the department certain information."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1465"
citation: "California SB 1465 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-03-20"
last_action: "2014-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c6709bb-7c50-48f7-8d50-38190d6644c0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465"
source_hash: "4031f2041c5c962d7dafc60a8d9b373f52a0c352c86b03cbc6aee3af9c3be91e"
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 SB 1465 (20132014) — Health.

(1) Existing law prohibits any private or public organization, political subdivision of the state, or other government agency within the state from providing or arranging for skilled nursing services to patients in the home without first obtaining a home health agency license, as defined, from the State Department of Public Health. Existing law establishes the requirements for licensure as a home health agency. Existing law requires the department to license a home health agency that, among other things, is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or the Community Health Accreditation Program and the accrediting organization forwards to the department certain information.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465&version=20130SB146599INT)
2. **06/11/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465&version=20130SB146598AMD)
3. **08/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465&version=20130SB146597AMD)
4. **09/18/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465&version=20130SB146595CHP)
5. **SB1465** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465)
6. **08/25/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1465&version=20130SB146596ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1465 Committee on Health (Hernandez) Urgency Clause Concurrence — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 1465 HEALTH Third Reading Urgency By BONTA — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB1465 Committee on Health — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- From committee: That the Assembly Amendments be concurred in. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-03-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 20.
- **2014-03-27** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-10** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2014-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3281.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-29** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2014-05-05** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-08** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3417.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-08** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-06** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6168.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-20** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. `referral-committee`
- **2014-08-20** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4637.) Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-20** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4671.) `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-21** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4698.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 442, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c6709bb-7c50-48f7-8d50-38190d6644c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).