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Bill	Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval.	Existing law requires a nonprofit corporation, as defined, that operates or controls a health facility, as defined, or operates or controls a facility that provides similar health care to provide written notice to, and obtain the written consent of, the Attorney General prior to selling or otherwise disposing of a material amount of its assets to a for-profit corporation or entity, to a mutual benefit corporation or entity, or to another nonprofit corporation or entity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 651	California AB 651 (20172018)	bill	Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval.	enacted	Muratsuchi	8	28	5	2017-02-14	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f9a92013-13b9-43a4-8758-a27a62940d26	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB651	40200418e7d3f7d1d4ccbd16a857e6d8e34ffe120288e6dfd81d0f649e4d3ee0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 651 (20172018) — Nonprofit health facilities: sale of assets: Attorney General approval.

Existing law requires a nonprofit corporation, as defined, that operates or controls a health facility, as defined, or operates or controls a facility that provides similar health care to provide written notice to, and obtain the written consent of, the Attorney General prior to selling or otherwise disposing of a material amount of its assets to a for-profit corporation or entity, to a mutual benefit corporation or entity, or to another nonprofit corporation or entity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB651 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 651 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — 58–18 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB651 Muratsuchi By Lara — 27–13 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 651 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 52–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (March 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 1539.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-24 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-06-27 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
• 2017-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (July 11). 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: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 2713.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-12 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3206.)
• 2017-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 52. Noes 25. Page 3222.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 782, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9a92013-13b9-43a4-8758-a27a62940d26. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).