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California 20252026

AB 1696

Emergency services and care: nurse-midwives.

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Emergencyservicesandcare, nurse-midwives
Introduced / first action
2026-02-03 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Department of Consumer Affairs: director: powers and duties.

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law provides for the licensing and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health and generally makes a violation of those provisions a crime. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and generally makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law requires a health facility to provide emergency services and care upon request for any condition in which the person is in danger of loss of life or serious injury or illness. Existing law requires a health care service plan to reimburse providers for emergency services and care. Existing law defines "emergency services and care" for these purposes to mean medical screening, examination, and evaluation by a physician and surgeon, or other appropriate licensed persons under the supervision of a physician and surgeon, to determine if an emergency medical condition or active labor exists and, if it does, the care, treatment, and surgery, if within the scope of that person's license, necessary to relieve or eliminate the emergency medical condition, within the capability of the facility, among other things. This bill would specify that the above-described provisions would not require physician supervision of a licensed nurse-midwife in the labor and delivery unit, obstetric triage, or dedicated emergency obstetric evaluation unit, when the nurse-midwife is providing care to the extent authorized by, and consistent with, specified licensing and certification provisions, or when the nurse-midwife is specifically requested by the treating physician and surgeon to provide obstetric consultation. By changing the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 484, Statutes of 2026.

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  2. Approved by the Governor.

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  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  4. In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  5. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.).

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  6. Ordered to third reading.

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  7. From Consent Calendar.

  8. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  9. From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  10. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  11. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  12. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  13. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    reading-1, referral-committee

  14. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 5289.)

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  15. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4876.)

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  16. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 29).

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  18. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  19. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  20. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.

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  21. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  22. From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.

  23. Read first time. To print.

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