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Bill	Seclusion and restraint: developmental services: health facilities.	Existing law requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to develop technical assistance and training programs to support the efforts of community care facilities, group homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to reduce or eliminate the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints in these facilities. Existing law requires specified entities within the California Health and Human Services Agency to take steps to establish a system of mandatory, consistent, timely, and publicly accessible data collection regarding the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints in state hospitals operated by the State Department of State Hospitals, facilities operated by the State Department of Developmental Services, and other specified facilities that utilize seclusion or behavioral restraints.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 918	California AB 918 (20152016)	bill	Seclusion and restraint: developmental services: health facilities.	enacted	Mark Stone	9	30	7	2015-02-26	2015-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/4abbd815-5424-4368-8efd-8db4344dc8d8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB918	04a8bd51dd949272ce3923af655dbc89e3e4d1407923568214db6076f90d7827	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 918 (20152016) — Seclusion and restraint: developmental services: health facilities.

Existing law requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to develop technical assistance and training programs to support the efforts of community care facilities, group homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to reduce or eliminate the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints in these facilities. Existing law requires specified entities within the California Health and Human Services Agency to take steps to establish a system of mandatory, consistent, timely, and publicly accessible data collection regarding the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints in state hospitals operated by the State Department of State Hospitals, facilities operated by the State Department of Developmental Services, and other specified facilities that utilize seclusion or behavioral restraints.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB918 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/03/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 918 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB918 Mark Stone By McGuire — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 918 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Measure version as amended on May 28 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1811.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-25 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-26 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2308.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
• 2015-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2740.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 340, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4abbd815-5424-4368-8efd-8db4344dc8d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).