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Bill	Hospice licensure: moratorium on new licenses.	The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. The act also provides for the renewal of a license. The act imposes criminal penalties on any person who violates any provision of the act or any rule or regulation promulgated under the act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 664	California SB 664 (20212022)	bill	Hospice licensure: moratorium on new licenses.	enacted	Allen	6	30	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/ad4435ca-187f-4c54-b622-c8e7aa0aad42	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB664	41d923f4ec1d2d87cd0dcc86447323ea9e16279ee8a3ed02d29f4c0fa51a2f85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 664 (20212022) — Hospice licensure: moratorium on new licenses.

The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. The act also provides for the renewal of a license. The act imposes criminal penalties on any person who violates any provision of the act or any rule or regulation promulgated under the act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB664 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB664 Allen Concurrence — 31–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 32–4 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 664 Allen Senate Third Reading By Nazarian — 66–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Allen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 Set for hearing April 21.
• 2021-04-20 April 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 956.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1199.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 1379.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 2933.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 3. Page 2587.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 494, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad4435ca-187f-4c54-b622-c8e7aa0aad42. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).