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Bill	Long-term care: family councils.	Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and intermediate care facilities (ICFs) . Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) . A violation of those licensing provisions is generally a crime. Existing law prohibits those facilities from prohibiting the formation of a family council, which is a meeting of family members, friends, or representatives of 2 or more residents to confer in private without facility staff. Existing law prohibits those facilities from willfully interfering with the formation, maintenance, or promotion of a family council, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 979	California AB 979 (20232024)	bill	Long-term care family councils	enacted	Alvarez	6	25	7	2023-02-15	2023-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/52d40020-05b2-4fe5-88b0-8b3872a094e1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB979	427993a8f64791317c060f3fe10544f25d81e6f2b95f61788608a77ed26d0a8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 979 (20232024) — Long-term care: family councils.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and intermediate care facilities (ICFs) . Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) . A violation of those licensing provisions is generally a crime. Existing law prohibits those facilities from prohibiting the formation of a family council, which is a meeting of family members, friends, or representatives of 2 or more residents to confer in private without facility staff. Existing law prohibits those facilities from willfully interfering with the formation, maintenance, or promotion of a family council, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/14/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/13/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB979 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 979 Alvarez Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 979 Alvarez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Alvarez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2023-03-02 Referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
• 2023-04-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1580.)
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1886.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-08-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2180.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2823.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 821, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52d40020-05b2-4fe5-88b0-8b3872a094e1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).