Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital.
California SB 1300 (20232024) — Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–2 (pass) · upper
SB 1300 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Jackson — 70–3 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB1300 Cortese et al. Concurrence — 28–9 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Cortese — primary (person)
Caballero — coauthor (person)
Hurtado — coauthor (person)
Menjivar — coauthor (person)
Schiavo — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2024-03-14 Set for hearing April 3.
2024-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 3469.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-08 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-09 Set for hearing April 15.
2024-04-15 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2024-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4048.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-20 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6503.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-27 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5512.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 894, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4422521e-8670-4026-ba9a-f4a0037dcca8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).