CA SB 596

enacted

Health facilities: administrative penalties.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law provides for the licensure of various health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nurse-to-patient ratios by licensed nurse classification and by hospital unit for all general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals. Existing law requires the department to assess an administrative penalty of $15,000 for the first violation and $30,000 for the second and each subsequent violation if the department determines that a specified health facility has violated nurse-to-patient ratios, as specified. Under existing law, an acute general hospital is not subject to this administrative penalty if the hospital demonstrates it has met specified requirements, including that any fluctuation in required staffing levels was unpredictable and uncontrollable, prompt efforts were made to maintain required staffing levels, and the hospital immediately used and subsequently exhausted the hospital's on-call list of nurses and the charge nurse. Existing law specifies that multiple violations found on the same inspection survey constitute a single violation for purposes of determining whether the violation was a first, 2nd, or subsequent violation. This bill would define "on-call list" for the above purpose and would specify that a hospital contacting, or attempting to contact, licensed nurses who are not scheduled to be on call and who are not assigned to a float pool for the unit and shift where an alleged violation occurred is not considered as exhausting an on-call list. The bill would require the department to treat violations on separate days as separate violations.

Introduced: 2025-02-20
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
introduction,reading-1,referral-committee
2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2025-03-27
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-08
Set for hearing April 23.
2025-04-24
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2. Page 868.) (April 23).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-28
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-05-02
Set for hearing May 12.
2025-05-12
May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-16
Set for hearing May 23.
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1205.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 1510.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-05
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
reading-1
2025-06-16
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
referral-committee
2025-07-01
July 8 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-03
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-08-20
August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 4.) (August 29).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-02
Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
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2025-09-03
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-09-11
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 48. Noes 19. Page 3318.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-12
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-12
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 21. Noes 10. Page 2973.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-10-13
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-10-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2025.
became-law

Versions

02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
03/27/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-27Compare
04/28/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-28Compare
07/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-03Compare
09/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-02Compare
09/18/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-18Compare
10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-23 · pass · 8-2
Member-level votes (11)
- Wiener: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Limón: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Valladares: no
- Grove: no
- Weber Pierson: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Wahab: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Caballero: yes
Do pass
2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Dahle: other
3rd Reading
2025-06-04 · pass · 24-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Durazo: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Stern: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Jones: no
- Valladares: no
- Strickland: no
- Seyarto: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Choi: no
- Dahle: no
- Niello: no
- Grove: no
- Reyes: other
- Weber Pierson: other
- Umberg: other
- Blakespear: other
- Ashby: other
- Archuleta: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 12-2
Member-level votes (16)
- Bonta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Addis: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Patel: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Patterson: no
- Flora: other
- Chen: other
Do pass as amended.
2025-08-29 · pass · 10-4
Member-level votes (15)
- Elhawary: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Solache: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Ta: no
- Tangipa: no
- Dixon: no
- Pacheco: other
SB 596 Menjivar Senate Third Reading By Schiavo
2025-09-12 · pass · 48-19
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: no
- Dixon: no
- Ávila Farías: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: no
- Castillo: no
- Alanis: no
- Wallis: no
- Ta: no
- Hoover: no
- Gallagher: no
- Macedo: no
- Ellis: no
- Davies: no
- DeMaio: no
- Hadwick: no
- Tangipa: no
- Lackey: no
- Sanchez: no
- Chen: no
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Nguyen: other
- Krell: other
- Irwin: other
- Papan: other
- Ramos: other
- Blanca Rubio: other
- Soria: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Aguiar-Curry: other
- Carrillo: other
- Flora: other
- Patterson: other
Unfinished Business SB596 Menjivar Concurrence
2025-09-12 · pass · 21-10
Member-level votes (40)
- McGuire: yes
- Caballero: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Allen: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Strickland: no
- Seyarto: no
- Niello: no
- Valladares: no
- Jones: no
- Archuleta: no
- Grove: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Dahle: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Cabaldon: other
- Becker: other
- Ashby: other
- Weber Pierson: other
- Choi: other
- Richardson: other
- Blakespear: other
- Umberg: other
- Gonzalez: other

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