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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Residential care facilities for the elderly: licensing and regulation."
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description: "Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires any person seeking a license for a residential care facility for the elderly to file an application with the department, as specified. Among other required application information, if the applicant is a firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company, evidence of reputable and responsible character is required to be submitted as to the members or shareholders thereof, and the person in charge of the residential care facility for the elderly for which the application for issuance of license or special permit is made."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 601"
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citation: "California AB 601 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Residential care facilities for the elderly: licensing and regulation."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 26
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2015-02-24"
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last_action: "2015-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dc3dffa-9aa6-42c1-b47c-1ae6cf2638b1"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601"
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source_hash: "d0560c625fd80986226ca7fcaa02ffe643688f02a2f8d3e2073cae44c82fc82b"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 601 (20152016) — Residential care facilities for the elderly: licensing and regulation.
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Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires any person seeking a license for a residential care facility for the elderly to file an application with the department, as specified. Among other required application information, if the applicant is a firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, or company, evidence of reputable and responsible character is required to be submitted as to the members or shareholders thereof, and the person in charge of the residential care facility for the elderly for which the application for issuance of license or special permit is made.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60199INT)
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2. **04/23/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60198AMD)
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3. **06/24/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60197AMD)
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4. **06/29/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60196AMD)
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5. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60195AMD)
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6. **10/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60193CHP)
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7. **AB601** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601)
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8. **09/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB601&version=20150AB60194ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended — **6–1** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 601 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB601 Eggman By Block — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 601 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **66–7** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Eggman — primary (person)
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- Block — coauthor (person)
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- Brown — principal coauthor (person)
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- Calderon — coauthor (person)
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- Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
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- **2015-03-09** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-04-23** 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`
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- **2015-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 1486.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-28** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **2015-06-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-06-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-13** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-08-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (August 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-08-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2404.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2015-09-03** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
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- **2015-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2870.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 628, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dc3dffa-9aa6-42c1-b47c-1ae6cf2638b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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