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CA AB 346

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In-home supportive services: licensed health care professional certification.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 346 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 346 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.

What is CA AB 346 about?

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with specified services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law defines supportive services for purposes of the IHSS program to include those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a licensed health care professional, which persons could provide for themselves, but for their functional limitations. Existing law requires an applicant for, or recipient of, in-home supportive services, as a condition of receiving these services, to obtain a certification from a licensed health care professional declaring that the applicant or recipient is unable to perform some activities of daily living independently, and that without services to assist the applicant or recipient with activities of daily living, the applicant or recipient is at risk of placement in out-of-home care, and defines a licensed health care professional for this purpose to mean an individual licensed in California by the appropriate California regulatory agency, acting within the scope of their license or certificate as defined in the Business and Professions Code. This bill would use the above-described definition of "licensed health care professional" for purposes of the provisions relating to paramedical services, and would, for purposes of the certification requirement, add to the above-described definition of "licensed health care professional" that the licensed individual has primary responsibilities to diagnose or provide treatment and care for physical or mental impairments that cause or contribute to an individual's functional limitations.

Who sponsors CA AB 346?

Nguyen is the primary sponsor of CA AB 346.

Description

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with specified services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization. Existing law defines supportive services for purposes of the IHSS program to include those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a licensed health care professional, which persons could provide for themselves, but for their functional limitations. Existing law requires an applicant for, or recipient of, in-home supportive services, as a condition of receiving these services, to obtain a certification from a licensed health care professional declaring that the applicant or recipient is unable to perform some activities of daily living independently, and that without services to assist the applicant or recipient with activities of daily living, the applicant or recipient is at risk of placement in out-of-home care, and defines a licensed health care professional for this purpose to mean an individual licensed in California by the appropriate California regulatory agency, acting within the scope of their license or certificate as defined in the Business and Professions Code. This bill would use the above-described definition of "licensed health care professional" for purposes of the provisions relating to paramedical services, and would, for purposes of the certification requirement, add to the above-described definition of "licensed health care professional" that the licensed individual has primary responsibilities to diagnose or provide treatment and care for physical or mental impairments that cause or contribute to an individual's functional limitations.

Introduced
2025-05-23
Latest action
2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Nguyenauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-29

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-01-30

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

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  4. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  5. 2025-05-07

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  6. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  7. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  8. 2025-05-23

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  9. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-06-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2003.)

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  11. 2025-06-04

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  12. 2025-06-18

    Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

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  13. 2025-07-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  14. 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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  15. 2025-07-14

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  16. 2025-08-29

    In committee: Held under submission.

Versions

  • 01/29/25 - Introduced — 2025-01-29Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 07/09/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-09Compare
  • AB346Compare
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Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Calderon: yes
  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ta: other
    • Sanchez: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Tangipa: other
  • AB 346 Nguyen Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-03 · pass · 76-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Berman: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Lackey: other
    • McKinnor: other
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-30 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Becker: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: 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

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