CA SB 389
enactedPupil health: individuals with exceptional needs: respiratory services: licensed vocational nurses.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 389 pass?
Yes. CA SB 389 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-10. Latest recorded action (2025-10-10): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 582, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 389 about?
(1) Existing law, the Respiratory Care Practice Act, establishes the Respiratory Care Board of California to license and regulate the practice of respiratory care. The act authorizes, among other things, a licensed vocational nurse who is employed by a home health agency to perform respiratory tasks and services identified by the board, as specified. This bill would also authorize the performance of suctioning and other basic respiratory tasks and services by a licensed vocational nurse under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse. (2) Existing law authorizes an individual with exceptional needs who requires specialized physical health care services, as defined, during the regular schoolday, to be assisted by individuals meeting specified requirements. This bill would also authorize an individual with exceptional needs who requires specialized physical health care services to be assisted by a licensed vocational nurse under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse for the above-described basic respiratory services.
Who sponsors CA SB 389?
Ochoa Bogh is the primary sponsor of CA SB 389, joined by 1 cosponsor.
Description
(1) Existing law, the Respiratory Care Practice Act, establishes the Respiratory Care Board of California to license and regulate the practice of respiratory care. The act authorizes, among other things, a licensed vocational nurse who is employed by a home health agency to perform respiratory tasks and services identified by the board, as specified. This bill would also authorize the performance of suctioning and other basic respiratory tasks and services by a licensed vocational nurse under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse. (2) Existing law authorizes an individual with exceptional needs who requires specialized physical health care services, as defined, during the regular schoolday, to be assisted by individuals meeting specified requirements. This bill would also authorize an individual with exceptional needs who requires specialized physical health care services to be assisted by a licensed vocational nurse under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse for the above-described basic respiratory services.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Latest action
- 2025-10-10 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 582, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Ochoa Boghauthor
- Dahlecoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-14
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,reading-1,referral-committee
2025-02-18
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2025-02-26
Referred to Coms. on ED. and B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2025-03-11
Set for hearing March 26.
2025-03-26
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 566.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-03
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-24
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-28
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 917.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-13
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1091.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-15
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2025-05-29
Referred to Coms. on ED. and B. & P.
referral-committee
2025-07-03
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-20
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
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2025-08-21
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
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2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2775.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-08-28
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-10-10
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-10
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 582, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
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Votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-26 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Choi: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Laird: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-28 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Grayson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd SB389 Ochoa Bogh et al.
2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Padilla: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Grove: other
- Rubio: other
- Cervantes: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-02 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Addis: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-08 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Caloza: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Chen: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Flora: yes
- Krell: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Bains: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
SB 389 Ochoa Bogh Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-08-28 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bains: yes
- Flora: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Berman: other
- Elhawary: other
- Valencia: other
- Gallagher: other
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