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Bill	Mental health: community care facilities.	(1) Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law includes within the definition of community care facility a short-term residential therapeutic program, which is a residential facility licensed by the department and operated by any public agency or private organization that provides an integrated program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, treatment, and short-term, 24-hour care and supervision to children. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 501	California AB 501 (20172018)	bill	Mental health: community care facilities.	enacted	Ridley-Thomas	11	33	10	2017-02-13	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/760d4952-d6f7-4e79-ae64-c725c8b3e637	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB501	03153cceb2724a031cd636658b2e2070abe4597dd62ef78e1f8650cf74f54ec6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 501 (20172018) — Mental health: community care facilities.

(1) Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law includes within the definition of community care facility a short-term residential therapeutic program, which is a residential facility licensed by the department and operated by any public agency or private organization that provides an integrated program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, treatment, and short-term, 24-hour care and supervision to children. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/06/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB501 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 501 RIDLEY-THOMAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 501 RIDLEY-THOMAS Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB501 Ridley-Thomas By Roth — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ridley-Thomas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-06 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1977.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-05 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2706.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3287.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 704, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/760d4952-d6f7-4e79-ae64-c725c8b3e637. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).