CA AB 1923

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Distressed Hospital Loan Program.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to administer the Distressed Hospital Loan Program, until January 1, 2032, which provides loans to not-for-profit hospitals and public hospitals in significant financial distress or to governmental entities representing a closed hospital to prevent the closure of, or facilitate the reopening of, those hospitals. Existing law requires the department to develop a methodology to evaluate an at-risk hospital's potential eligibility for state assistance from the program, and authorizes the methodology for determining financial distress to consider the hospital's prior and projected performance on financial metrics, including, among other things, the amount of cash on hand. Existing law requires a hospital or a closed hospital applying for aid under this program to provide, among other things, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority and the department with financial information demonstrating the hospital's need for financial assistance due to financial hardship. Existing law requires the department to provide loan forgiveness or modification of loan terms to an applicant based upon criteria determined by the department and subject to the approval of the department and the authority. Existing law requires the department to establish the terms and conditions associated with accepting loan forgiveness or modification of loan terms, subject to approval of the Department of Finance. This bill would, if an appropriation is made for this purpose, require the evaluation for loan forgiveness incorporate projections of future financial performance in addition to a hospital's point-in-time financial condition. The bill would, if an appropriation is made for this purpose, in place of the current criteria, require the department to provide loan forgiveness to any participant of the program who received a loan award before the effective date of this act, as specified, if the department and authority determine the participant has demonstrated a good faith effort to comply with program requirements through January 1, 2026, and the financial projections demonstrate that the participant will become financially distressed as a result of loan repayments under the program or other outside factors, including, but not limited to, the impacts of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This bill would extend the program through January 1, 2035. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Introduced: 2026-02-25
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

DistressedHospitalLoanProgram

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-12
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2026-02-13
From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
2026-02-25
Introduced measure version corrected.
introduction
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2026-03-24
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2026-03-26
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-04-06
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2026-04-08
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2026-04-22
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 21).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2026-04-23
Read second time and amended.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-04-27
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2026-05-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-05-19
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0. Page 5149.) (May 14).
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2026-05-20
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-05-21
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-05-27
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).
amendment-passage,passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-28
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-06-10
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2026-07-02
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 1).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2026-07-02
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Versions

02/12/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-12Compare
03/26/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-26Compare
04/23/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-04-23Compare
05/20/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-05-20Compare
07/02/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-07-02Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-21 · pass · 16-0
Member-level votes (16)
- Patel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Addis: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
Do pass as amended.
2026-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
AB 1923 Soria Third Reading Urgency
2026-05-28 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Davies: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Addis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Papan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bains: yes
- Chen: yes
- Soria: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ward: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ta: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Flora: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Haney: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Ortega: other
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-07-01 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Durazo: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Grove: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Rubio: other

Related bills

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1923

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