Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1575.1
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(e) The department may deny approval of a license application or of an application for approval under subdivision (d) or revoke a license if a person named in the application, as required by this section, was suspended as a Medi-Cal provider or excluded as a medicaid or Medicare provider, was an officer, director, general partner, or owner of a 5 percent or greater beneficial or control interest in a licensee of, or in a management company under contract with a licensee of, a health facility, community care facility, residential care facility for the elderly, home health agency, clinic, or adult day health care center at a time when one or more violations of law were committed therein that resulted in suspension or revocation of its license, or at a time when a court-ordered receiver was appointed pursuant to Section 1327, or at a time when a final medicaid decertification action was taken under federal law. However, the prior suspension, revocation, or court-ordered receivership of a license shall not be grounds for denial of the application if the applicant shows to the satisfaction of the department that both of the following conditions exist: