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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 991: Residential care facilities for the elderly: categorization of citations.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 991 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 5, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Residential care facilities for the elderly: categorization of citations. Primary sponsor: Caroline Menjivar (D). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (September 30, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 994, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act (act), requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, and imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the act or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act. Existing law authorizes the department to also impose civil penalties for violations of the act. Existing law gives residents of those facilities specified rights, including, but not limited to, the right to be free from neglect, financial exploitation, involuntary seclusion, and verbal, mental, or physical abuse.

Beginning July 1, 2029, this bill would require the department, when a licensee is cited for a deficiency that constitutes abuse in violation of a resident’s rights, to categorize the type of abuse. The bill would describe the categories of abuse, including physical abuse and abandonment, among others and would require that the category of abuse be listed on a public-facing database maintained by the department.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Caroline MenjivarPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate20
Steve BennettCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly38
Akilah Weber PiersonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate39
Laura RichardsonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate35

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 994, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Ordered to special consent calendar.
  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6470.) Ordered to the Senate.
  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  9. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  10. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 13).
  11. Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
  12. August 5 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page