CA SB 1189

passed one chamber

Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law, the Health Care Decisions Law, provides for the creation, form, and revocation of advance health care directives, and authorizes an adult having capacity to give an individual health care instruction. Under existing law, the advance health care directive of a patient in a skilled nursing facility is not effective unless a patient advocate or ombudsman signs the advance directive as a witness and declares that they are serving as a witness pursuant to this requirement. Existing law authorizes a witness who is a patient advocate or ombudsman to rely on the representations of the administrators or staff of the skilled nursing facility, or of family members, as convincing evidence of the identity of the patient, as specified. This bill would delete a patient advocate from the above-described witness duties, thus requiring that an ombudsman witness the advance health care directive of a patient in a skilled nursing facility.

Introduced: 2026-02-19
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — Ordered to third reading.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Advancehealthcaredirectiveofaskillednursingfacilitypatient

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-19
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2026-03-04
Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
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2026-03-10
Set for hearing March 24.
2026-03-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3659.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-03-27
Set for hearing April 13.
2026-04-13
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-04-14
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-04-16
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3920.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-04-16
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-05-11
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-04
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-09
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9).
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2026-06-10
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2026-06-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5706.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-06-16
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2026-06-22
Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-06-23
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2026-07-02
Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
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2026-07-02
Ordered to third reading.
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Versions

02/19/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-19Compare
06/04/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-06-04Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-03-24 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Stern: yes
- Laird: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Niello: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Ashby: other
Consent Calendar 2nd SB1189 Valladares et al.
2026-04-16 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Niello: yes
- Stern: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Jones: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Allen: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grove: yes
- Menjivar: other
- Seyarto: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-06-09 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Stefani: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Papan: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Harabedian: yes
SB 1189 Valladares Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-06-16 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Krell: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Berman: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Addis: yes
- Davies: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Solache: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Flora: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Papan: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Soria: yes
- Wilson: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Schiavo: other
- Johnson: other

Related bills

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