CA SB 1189
passed bothAdvance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 1189 pass?
Not yet law. CA SB 1189 has passed both chambers but has not been enacted. Latest recorded action (2026-08-31): Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
What is CA SB 1189 about?
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.
Who sponsors CA SB 1189?
Valladares is the primary sponsor of CA SB 1189, joined by 1 cosponsor.
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
- Latest action
- 2026-08-31 — Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Valladaresauthor
- Ochoa Boghcoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-31
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
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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2026-06-23
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2026-06-22
Ordered to the Assembly.
2026-06-16
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2026-06-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5706.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2026-06-10
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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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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2026-06-04
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-05-11
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-04-16
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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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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2026-04-14
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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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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2026-03-27
Set for hearing April 13.
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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2026-03-10
Set for hearing March 24.
2026-03-04
Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
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2026-02-20
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2026-02-19
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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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
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