Health and care facilities: inspections and penalties.
(1) Existing law generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health and care facilities. Existing law specifically requires the department to adopt regulations that require a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a special hospital to meet minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and assign additional staff according to a documented patient classification system for determining nursing care requirements. Existing law also generally requires the department to periodically inspect every health facility for which a license or special permit has been issued for compliance with state laws and regulations, and to ensure that those periodic inspections are not announced in advance of inspection.
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California Legislature
20192020
SB 227
California SB 227 (20192020)
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Health and care facilities: inspections and penalties.
California SB 227 (20192020) — Health and care facilities: inspections and penalties.
(1) Existing law generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health and care facilities. Existing law specifically requires the department to adopt regulations that require a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a special hospital to meet minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and assign additional staff according to a documented patient classification system for determining nursing care requirements. Existing law also generally requires the department to periodically inspect every health facility for which a license or special permit has been issued for compliance with state laws and regulations, and to ensure that those periodic inspections are not announced in advance of inspection.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2019-02-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-03-12 Set for hearing April 10.
2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 714.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-04-18 Set for hearing April 29.
2019-04-29 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2019-04-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 22. Noes 13. Page 996.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-06-04 June 11 hearing postponed by committee.
2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2019-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (July 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-08-30 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 2953.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-03 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2019-09-04 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 2500.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2019-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 843, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60b3d448-a7fa-41cf-8d3e-9e43f57c10b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).