republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-1300.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 1300"
citation: "California SB 1300 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health facility closure", "inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services", "public notice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-15"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4422521e-8670-4026-ba9a-f4a0037dcca8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300"
source_hash: "3cb5b750e0962ced786b207b6fd3729dc08c727401d980de08b1f8aac934b964"
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 1300 (20232024) — Health facility closure: public notice: inpatient psychiatric and perinatal services.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license, regulate, and inspect health facilities, as specified, including general acute care hospitals. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Under existing law, a general acute care hospital is required to provide certain basic services, including medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to provide various special or supplemental services if certain conditions are met. Existing regulations define a supplemental service as an organized inpatient or outpatient service that is not required to be provided by law or regulation. Existing law requires a health facility to provide 90 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of a supplemental service, and 120 days of public notice of the proposed closure or elimination of an acute psychiatric hospital.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130099INT)
2. **03/19/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130098AMD)
3. **04/08/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130097AMD)
4. **06/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130096AMD)
5. **08/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130095AMD)
6. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130093CHP)
7. **SB1300** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300)
8. **08/29/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1300&version=20230SB130094ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **27–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–2** (pass) · upper
- SB 1300 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Jackson — **70–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1300 Cortese et al. Concurrence — **28–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cortese — primary (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-14** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2024-03-19** 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`
- **2024-04-04** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 3469.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Set for hearing April 15.
- **2024-04-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 4048.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (July 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6503.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 9. Page 5512.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 894, 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/4422521e-8670-4026-ba9a-f4a0037dcca8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).