CA AB 1356
enactedAlcohol and other drug programs.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 1356 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1356 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1356 about?
Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law also provides for the certification and regulation of adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery and treatment programs by the department and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions. Existing law requires the department's death investigation policy to be designed to ensure that a resident's death is addressed and investigated by the department in a timely manner, and requires specified procedures if a death occurs in a licensed facility, including requiring a written report related to the death that includes a description of the followup action that is planned to prevent a future death. Existing law requires that report to be submitted to the department within 7 calendar days of the event or incident. This bill, John's Law, would additionally require a facility to submit to the department, within 30 days of the initial incident, any relevant information that was not known at the time of the initial incident. If the department identifies any violations of specified licensing provisions during its investigation of a resident's death, the bill would require the department to issue a written notice of deficiency to the facility. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific these provisions through the use of all-county letters, provider bulletins, or similar instructions without taking any further regulatory action.
Who sponsors CA AB 1356?
Dixon is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1356.
Description
Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for administering prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law also provides for the certification and regulation of adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery and treatment programs by the department and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions. Existing law requires the department's death investigation policy to be designed to ensure that a resident's death is addressed and investigated by the department in a timely manner, and requires specified procedures if a death occurs in a licensed facility, including requiring a written report related to the death that includes a description of the followup action that is planned to prevent a future death. Existing law requires that report to be submitted to the department within 7 calendar days of the event or incident. This bill, John's Law, would additionally require a facility to submit to the department, within 30 days of the initial incident, any relevant information that was not known at the time of the initial incident. If the department identifies any violations of specified licensing provisions during its investigation of a resident's death, the bill would require the department to issue a written notice of deficiency to the facility. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific these provisions through the use of all-county letters, provider bulletins, or similar instructions without taking any further regulatory action.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Dixonauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
introduction
2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-03-13
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 22).
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2025-04-24
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-28
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-14
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-05-21
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 21).
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2025-05-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-29
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1772.)
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2025-05-29
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-06-17
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
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2025-06-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-14
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-08-29
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2025-08-29
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
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2025-09-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-09
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-09-11
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2931.).
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2025-09-12
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-13
Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
2025-09-13
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3500.).
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2025-09-24
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 189, Statutes of 2025.
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Versions
- 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
- 04/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-24Compare
- 06/17/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-17Compare
- 07/09/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-09Compare
- 08/29/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-29Compare
- 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
- 10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-22 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Chen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Krell: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Flora: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Addis: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-21 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pellerin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hart: yes
AB 1356 Dixon Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-29 · pass · 70-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Calderon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Flora: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Addis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Patel: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Krell: yes
- Davies: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Nguyen: other
- Chen: other
- Lee: other
- Ward: other
- Bryan: other
- Solache: other
- Soria: other
- Tangipa: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-25 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Grove: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
Placed on suspense file
2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes
Do pass as amended
2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
Special Consent AB1356 Dixon By Jones
2025-09-11 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Valladares: yes
- Umberg: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Reyes: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Allen: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Limón: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
AB 1356 Dixon Concurrence in Senate Amendments
2025-09-13 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Davies: yes
- Zbur: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Jackson: other
- Elhawary: other
- Lee: other
- McKinnor: other
- Garcia: other
- Ta: other
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