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type: "Bill"
title: "Care facilities: civil penalties."
description: "Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illnesses, residential care facilities for the elderly, day care centers, and family day care homes. Existing law authorizes the department to impose various civil penalties for a licensing violation under those provisions, as specified, and requires moneys collected from the imposition of those penalties to be expended for certain purposes. Existing law establishes a process for the appeal of a citation under these provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2231"
citation: "California AB 2231 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Care facilities: civil penalties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-18"
last_action: "2016-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/633a2ba3-96f2-47b5-a916-c892f2b71bbd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231"
source_hash: "598d8d05d8e919066d4c89d0e1a1b7bed0020f2fc7b3e3a4545dc48abd213245"
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 2231 (20152016) — Care facilities: civil penalties.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, residential care facilities for persons with chronic life-threatening illnesses, residential care facilities for the elderly, day care centers, and family day care homes. Existing law authorizes the department to impose various civil penalties for a licensing violation under those provisions, as specified, and requires moneys collected from the imposition of those penalties to be expended for certain purposes. Existing law establishes a process for the appeal of a citation under these provisions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223199INT)
2. **04/06/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223198AMD)
3. **06/21/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223197AMD)
4. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223196AMD)
5. **08/17/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223195AMD)
6. **09/29/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223193CHP)
7. **AB2231** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231)
8. **08/30/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2231&version=20150AB223194ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · lower
- AB 2231 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2231 Calderon By McGuire — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **200** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **40** (pass) · upper
- AB 2231 CALDERON Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Calderon — primary (person)
- Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5031.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-21** 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. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5305.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6390.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2016-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 823, Statutes of 2016.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/633a2ba3-96f2-47b5-a916-c892f2b71bbd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).