New California Laws 2026
10144.5, and 10144.51 of the Insurance Code, and to amend Section 11165.7 of the Penal Code, relating to health care coverage. SB 412, Limón. Home care aides. This bill requires affiliated home care aides to complete training in the special care needs of clients with dementia as part of their annual five hours of training requirement. An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 1796.44 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. SB 439, Weber Pierson. California Health Benefit Review Program: extension. Extends the operation of the University of California (UC)-administered California Health Benefit Review Program (CHBRP) and the Health Care Benefits Fund (the fund for CH- BRP) through July 1, 2033. Extends the continued assessment of the annual charge on health plans and health insurers for the purpose of funding CHBRP for the 2026–27 to 2032–33 fiscal years, inclusive. In- creases the maximum allowable total annual assess- ment on health plans and health insurers from $2.2 million to $3.2 million. Deletes an obsolete reference to the Healthy Families Program. An act to amend Sections 127660, 127662, and 127665 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to the California Health Benefit Review Program. SB 497, Wiener. Legally protected health care ac- tivity. This bill enacts various safeguards against the enforcement of other states’ laws that purport to pe- nalize individuals from obtaining gender-affirming care that is legal in California. An act to amend Section 56.109 of the Civil Code, to amend Sections 2029.300 and 2029.350 of the Code of Civil Procedure, to amend Section 11165 of the Health and Safety Code, and to amend Section 1326 of the Penal Code, relating to health care, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect imme- diately. SB 520, Caballero. Nurse-midwifery education program. Creates the California Nurse-Midwife- ry Education (CNME) Fund in the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) for the purpose of establishing California-based, master’s level nurse-midwifery education programs. Requires HCAI to administer the fund, which will receive mon- ey from the General Fund (GF) upon appropriation. An act to add Article 7 (commencing with Section 128570) to Chapter 5 of Part 3 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to maternal care and services. SB 530, Richardson. Medi-Cal: time and distance standards. This bill extends the operation of the existing Medi-Cal managed care plan network ade- quacy standards for three more years, and adds new requirements regarding subcontractors, telehealth appointments, applications for alternative access standards, and reporting and testing of network ad- equacy. An act to amend Sections 14197 and 14197.9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to Medi-Cal. SB 558, Padilla. Imperial Valley Healthcare Dis- trict: voting districts. MARY: Makes members of the Imperial Valley Healthcare District’s (IVHD’s) initial board of directors eligible for the first round of elec- tions for the board of directors.
An act to amend Section 32499.7 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care districts. SB 582, Stern. Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters. This bill establish- es licensing policies during federal or state declared emergencies or disasters for facilities licensed by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS), California Department of Public Health (CDPH), and California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). An act to amend Sections 1569.695 and 1596.8535 of, to add Sections 1418.23, 1524.2, 1524.3, 1568.069, 1568.257, 1569.192, and 1796.64 to, to add Chapter 7.6 (commencing with Section 11834.60) to Part 2 of Division 10.5 of, and to add Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 1796.80) to Division 2 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to health and care facilities. SB 596, Menjivar. Health facilities: administrative penalties. This bill revises a provision of law exempt- ing a hospital from financial penalties for nurse-to- patient ratio violations if the hospital immediately used and exhausted its on-call list of nurses, by de- fining an “on-call list” as being comprised of nurses who are scheduled to be on call for the shift and unit where an alleged violation occurred, or nurses who are assigned to a regularly scheduled float pool shift to cover any shortages across one or more specified units. Additionally, requires violations on separate days to be treated as separate violations. An act to amend Section 1280.3 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. SB 669, McGuire. Rural hospitals: standby perina- tal services. This bill requires the California Depart- ment of Public Health (CDPH) to establish a ten-year pilot project to allow up to five critical access hospi- tals to establish standby perinatal services. An act to add Sections 1256.05 and 1256.06 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to perinatal health care. SB 775, Ashby. Board of Psychology and Board of Behavioral Sciences. This bill is the sunset bill for the Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) and Board of Psychology (BOP) which makes various changes to the regulation of BBS and BOP licensees and reg- istrants stemming from the joint sunset review over- sight programs. An act to amend Sections 27, 729, 2902, 2903, 2908, 2913, 2914, 2915.5, 2920, 2934.1, 2936, 2950, 2952, 2960.2, 2960.5, 2960.6, 2961, 2962, 2963, 2964, 2964.3, 2971, 2987, 2995, 2999.101, 4980.01, 4980.03, 4980.11, 4980.38, 4980.397, 4980.40, 4980.41, 4980.43.3, 4980.50, 4980.54, 4980.72, 4980.74, 4982, 4984.41, 4984.7, 4989.20, 4989.45, 4989.49, 4989.54, 4990, 4990.04, 4992.2, 4992.3, 4996.16.1, 4996.23.2, 4997.1, 4999.12, 4999.23, 4999.46.3, 4999.90, and 4999.113 of, to amend and repeal Sections 4980.43.2, 4996.23.1, and 4999.46.2 of, to add Sections 2915.1, 2915.2, 2915.3, 2920.2, 2954.1, 2954.2, 2954.4, 2954.5, 2954.6, 4990.01, 4990.26.1, 4990.26.2, and 4990.26.3 to, to repeal Sections 25, 28, 29, 2953, and 4982.05 of, to repeal and add Sections 2964.5, 2964.6, 2966, 2985, and 2986 of, and to repeal, add, and re- peal Section 2912 of, the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.
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