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Bill	Health.	(1) 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. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2025, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations. Existing law requires the moratorium to end the date the emergency regulations are adopted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 177	California AB 177 (20232024)	bill appropriation	Health	enacted	Committee on Budget	6	29	4	2023-01-09	2024-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/7095ac33-a984-4a37-9c23-8dbc7df09d15	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB177	5703a2e7ae4515d514e9ffb26e281e332660cfd7761bd5ae2150b7fc02f08221	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 177 (20232024) — Health.

(1) 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. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2025, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations. Existing law requires the moratorium to end the date the emergency regulations are adopted.

Version chain

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

1. 01/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB177 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB177 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 18–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 177 Budget Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — 74–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 177 Budget Assembly Third Reading By TING — 60–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Committee on Budget — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-10 From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
• 2023-01-26 Referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2023-02-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-02-02 Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. referral-committee
• 2023-03-20 Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 732.)
• 2023-03-20 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2023-03-20 Ordered to second reading.
• 2023-03-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 867.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-03-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-04-12 Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-20 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-06-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-08-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-08-15 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 5070.)
• 2024-08-22 Senate rules suspended.
• 2024-08-22 (Ayes 24. Noes 9. Page 5300.)
• 2024-08-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 999, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7095ac33-a984-4a37-9c23-8dbc7df09d15. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).