republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1751.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing care retirement communities."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the regulation by the State Department of Social Services of activities relating to continuing care contracts that govern care provided to an elderly resident in a continuing care retirement community for the duration of the resident's life or a term in excess of one year. Existing law declares the Legislature's finding that the residents of continuing care retirement communities have a unique and valuable perspective on the operations of, and services provided in, the community in which they live and should have input into decisions made by the provider."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1751"
citation: "California AB 1751 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Continuing care retirement communities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-14"
last_action: "2014-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0c61ada-18f7-4329-9d2f-c19418b313f5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751"
source_hash: "de669812ad90a4dad149873f44274968c423a2ab3b1e1f51219be8edd3e9f947"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1751 (20132014) — Continuing care retirement communities.

(1) Existing law provides for the regulation by the State Department of Social Services of activities relating to continuing care contracts that govern care provided to an elderly resident in a continuing care retirement community for the duration of the resident's life or a term in excess of one year. Existing law declares the Legislature's finding that the residents of continuing care retirement communities have a unique and valuable perspective on the operations of, and services provided in, the community in which they live and should have input into decisions made by the provider.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175199INT)
2. **03/26/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175198AMD)
3. **05/01/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175197AMD)
4. **05/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175196AMD)
5. **06/15/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175195AMD)
6. **08/19/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175194AMD)
7. **09/28/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175192CHP)
8. **AB1751** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751)
9. **08/27/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1751&version=20130AB175193ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **11–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **3–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1751 BLOOM Assembly Third Reading — **52–23** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1751 Bloom By Beall — **26–6** (pass) · upper
- AB 1751 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **55–23** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2014-02-27** Referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-26** 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-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on AGING & L.T.C. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5092.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 5224.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-05** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 4716.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-21** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 23 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 23. Page 6399.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 699, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0c61ada-18f7-4329-9d2f-c19418b313f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).