Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters.
It became law on Oct 10, 2025.
- Stage
- Became law
- Started in
- Senate
- Sponsors
- 10
- Latest action
- Oct 10, 2025
What it does
Existing law provides for the licensure of clinics and various health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973, generally requires the department to license, inspect, and regulate long-term health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to willfully or repeatedly violate the act, as specified. Existing regulations require skilled nursing facilities to adopt and follow a written external disaster and mass casualty program plan developed with the advice and assistance of…
Where it stands
This bill passed and is now law.
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Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.