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California 20252026

SB 1189

Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
Advancehealthcaredirectiveofaskillednursingfacilitypatient
Introduced / first action
2026-02-19 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

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.

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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

  2. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-3

  3. Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.

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  4. In Assembly. Held at Desk.

  5. Ordered to the Assembly.

  6. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5706.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  8. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

    reading-1, reading-2

  9. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9).

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  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  11. Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  12. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  13. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3920.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  14. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  15. From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

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  16. Set for hearing April 13.

  17. 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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  18. Set for hearing March 24.

  19. Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.

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  20. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  21. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction, reading-1, referral-committee

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