Bill Text: CA AB895 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 895 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and residential care facilities for the elderly: notice to prospective residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 577, Statutes of 2022. [AB895 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB895-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 895

Introduced by Assembly Member Holden

February 17, 2021

An act relating to residential care facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 895, as introduced, Holden. Residential care facilities: living conditions.

Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensing and regulation by the State Department of Social Services of residential care facilities for the elderly, primarily serving persons 60 years of age or over. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation by the department of adult residential facilities, primarily serving adults under 60 years of age. Under existing law, residents of those facilities have the right to be accorded safe, healthful, and comfortable accommodations, furnishings, and equipment.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure residential care facilities for the elderly and adult residential facilities are clean and safe and promote wellness for the seniors and persons with disabilities who are served by those facilities.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would ensure residential care facilities for the elderly and adult residential facilities are clean and safe and promote wellness for the seniors and persons with disabilities who are served by those facilities.