Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters.
Existing law provides for the licensure of clinics and various health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, generally requires the department to license, inspect, and regulate long-term health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully or repeatedly violate the act, as specified. Existing regulations require skilled nursing facilities to adopt and follow a written external disaster and mass casualty program plan developed with the advice and assistance of county or regional and local planning offices.
California SB 582 (20252026) — Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters.
Existing law provides for the licensure of clinics and various health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, generally requires the department to license, inspect, and regulate long-term health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully or repeatedly violate the act, as specified. Existing regulations require skilled nursing facilities to adopt and follow a written external disaster and mass casualty program plan developed with the advice and assistance of county or regional and local planning offices.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Unfinished Business SB582 Stern et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading SB582 Stern et al. By Cervantes — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
SB 582 Stern Senate Third Reading By Lee — 79–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Stern — primary (person)
Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
Richardson — principal coauthor (person)
Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
Umberg — principal coauthor (person)
Wahab — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-05 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-04-02 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S. referral-committee
2025-04-03 Withdrawn from committee.
2025-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 21.
2025-04-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-04-10 Set for hearing April 30 in HEALTH pending receipt.
2025-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 812.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-04-22 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
2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 965.) (April 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-05-09 Set for hearing May 19.
2025-05-19 May 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-20 Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-29 From special consent calendar on motion of Senator Stern.
2025-05-29 Ordered to third reading.
2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1452.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2025-06-09 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and AGING & L.T.C. referral-committee
2025-06-12 Re-referred to Coms. on AGING & L.T.C and HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-07-16 Coauthors revised.
2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-02 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-02 Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2996.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2819.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
2025-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 546, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4f85f996-f2b4-4bba-9e79-dafe03784b49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).