republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2376.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chemical dependency recovery hospitals."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of certain health facilities, including a chemical dependency recovery hospital, which is defined to mean a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons who have a dependency on alcohol or other drugs, or both alcohol and other drugs. Existing law requires all beds in a chemical dependency recovery hospital to be designated for chemical dependency recovery services, as specified. Existing law authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided in a freestanding facility, within a hospital building that only provides chemical recovery services, or within a distinct part of a hospital, as defined. Existing law also authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided within a hospital building that has been removed from general acute care use. Existing law requires chemical dependency recovery services to comply with specified regulatory requirements for basic services, and optional services if the facility is approved by the department to provide them. Existing law only authorizes the colocation of chemical dependency recovery services as a distinct part with other services or distinct parts of its parent hospital, as specified. Existing law requires a separately licensed chemical dependency recovery hospital that is not a distinct part of a general acute care hospital to have agreements with one or more general acute care hospitals to provide specified additional services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2376"
citation: "California AB 2376 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Chemical dependency recovery hospitals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bains"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f548879c-800b-43de-9a02-9c0a27650aac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376"
source_hash: "371f527c7d6f7f01d8aa67ee1cd82ab2e5af36c43c1a27307fadfdb5c245f5eb"
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 2376 (20232024) — Chemical dependency recovery hospitals.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of certain health facilities, including a chemical dependency recovery hospital, which is defined to mean a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons who have a dependency on alcohol or other drugs, or both alcohol and other drugs. Existing law requires all beds in a chemical dependency recovery hospital to be designated for chemical dependency recovery services, as specified. Existing law authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided in a freestanding facility, within a hospital building that only provides chemical recovery services, or within a distinct part of a hospital, as defined. Existing law also authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided within a hospital building that has been removed from general acute care use. Existing law requires chemical dependency recovery services to comply with specified regulatory requirements for basic services, and optional services if the facility is approved by the department to provide them. Existing law only authorizes the colocation of chemical dependency recovery services as a distinct part with other services or distinct parts of its parent hospital, as specified. Existing law requires a separately licensed chemical dependency recovery hospital that is not a distinct part of a general acute care hospital to have agreements with one or more general acute care hospitals to provide specified additional services.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237699INT)
2. **03/21/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237698AMD)
3. **07/03/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237697AMD)
4. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237696AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237694CHP)
6. **AB2376** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376)
7. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2376&version=20230AB237695ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB2376 Bains By Wiener — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 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
- AB 2376 Bains Assembly Third Reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2376 Bains Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bains — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2024-03-21** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-21** 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`
- **2024-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5473.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 637, 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/f548879c-800b-43de-9a02-9c0a27650aac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).