republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-816.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospice facilities: developmental disabilities: intellectual disability."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including hospice facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law requires a freestanding hospice facility to meet specified requirements relating to the physical environment of the facility until the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, develops and adopts building standards for hospice facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 816"
citation: "California SB 816 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Hospice facilities: developmental disabilities: intellectual disability."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-03-11"
last_action: "2013-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0799d5a6-e7c0-4060-97e0-52ba2b334fdb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB816"
source_hash: "72d60c22e1e57567956cda70dcc664a1b15dfb7533d012f4da93f76ef10cc356"
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 SB 816 (20132014) — Hospice facilities: developmental disabilities: intellectual disability.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including hospice facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law requires a freestanding hospice facility to meet specified requirements relating to the physical environment of the facility until the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, in consultation with the Office of the State Fire Marshal, develops and adopts building standards for hospice facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/11/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB816&version=20130SB81699INT)
2. **09/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB816&version=20130SB81697CHP)
3. **SB816** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB816)
4. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB816&version=20130SB81698ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Governmental Organization to Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB816 Committee on Health — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 816 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-03-11** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-03-12** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 11.
- **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-22** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 618.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-23** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2013-04-29** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 775.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and G.O. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-14** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2673.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-22** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2013-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 289, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0799d5a6-e7c0-4060-97e0-52ba2b334fdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).