republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-707.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing care contracts."
description: "Existing law regulates continuing care contracts and imposes certain reporting and reserve requirements on continuing care communities. Existing law establishes the Continuing Care Provider Fee Fund, which consists of specified fees from continuing care providers and which is continuously appropriated to the State Department of Social Services to oversee the continuing care provider program. Existing law requires the department to adjust the fees to reduce the amounts collected when the balance of the fund is projected to exceed $500,000 for the next budget year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 707"
citation: "California SB 707 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Continuing care contracts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2022-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/293e982f-9b91-4e75-baa5-ba9df156b801"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707"
source_hash: "a6a7feae4788726d556a73f96df7527345f98756977ae19555b9c88e65f3bdd1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 707 (20212022) — Continuing care contracts.

Existing law regulates continuing care contracts and imposes certain reporting and reserve requirements on continuing care communities. Existing law establishes the Continuing Care Provider Fee Fund, which consists of specified fees from continuing care providers and which is continuously appropriated to the State Department of Social Services to oversee the continuing care provider program. Existing law requires the department to adjust the fees to reduce the amounts collected when the balance of the fund is projected to exceed $500,000 for the next budget year.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707&version=20210SB70799INT)
2. **04/08/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707&version=20210SB70798AMD)
3. **08/01/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707&version=20210SB70797AMD)
4. **09/25/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707&version=20210SB70795CHP)
5. **SB707** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707)
6. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB707&version=20210SB70796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 707 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Nazarian — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB707 Cortese Concurrence — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cortese — 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 HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2021-04-07** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 685.) (April 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2021-05-04** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1057.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-20** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2022-05-27** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-03** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-08-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5929.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-18** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5062.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2022-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 538, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/293e982f-9b91-4e75-baa5-ba9df156b801`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).