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Bill	Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.	Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse and problem gambling. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility upon receipt of a completed written application, fire clearance, and licensing fee, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 492	California AB 492 (20252026)	bill	Alcoholanddrugprograms licensing	enacted	Valencia	4	19	5	2025-02-10	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/b99598fb-d304-4b70-bcc7-0b22b35ba69f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB492	4bf48acf81c138f8c3e06dab72632a831dc3e3c3dc63dd7578f3f671b3b3fa85	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 492 (20252026) — Alcohol and drug programs: licensing.

Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse and problem gambling. Existing law authorizes the department to issue a license to operate an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility upon receipt of a completed written application, fire clearance, and licensing fee, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB492 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 492 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB492 Valencia et al. By Blakespear — 38–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Valencia — primary (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
• Sanchez — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1425.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2388.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 368, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b99598fb-d304-4b70-bcc7-0b22b35ba69f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).