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type: "Bill"
title: "Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs."
description: "Existing law grants the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. The department is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met. Existing law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility. Existing law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2081"
citation: "California AB 2081 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Substance abuse", "recovery and treatment programs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davies"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a9537c8-1d64-4f5c-9466-430a1e7f564f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081"
source_hash: "6a4cfad84041d2702becc9633e5e627373f163c63c4f10d986191fcbc2b2305e"
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 2081 (20232024) — Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs.
Existing law grants the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. The department is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met. Existing law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility. Existing law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/05/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081&version=20230AB208199INT)
2. **03/13/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081&version=20230AB208198AMD)
3. **04/04/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081&version=20230AB208197AMD)
4. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081&version=20230AB208195CHP)
5. **AB2081** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081)
6. **08/22/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2081&version=20230AB208196ENR)
## Votes
- AB 2081 Davies Consent Calendar Second Day — **710** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2081 Davies By Nguyen — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Davies — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2024-02-20** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-14** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 2). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5227.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 376, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a9537c8-1d64-4f5c-9466-430a1e7f564f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).