CaliforniaAdvance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.
What it does
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.
More detail
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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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed Assembly
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Aug 31Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.Latest
- Jul 2Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 2Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.Major
- Jun 23In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- Jun 22Ordered to the Assembly.
- Jun 16In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Vote recorded SB 1189 Valladares Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 15Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5706.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Jun 10Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Jun 9From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Jun 4From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Major
- May 11Referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Apr 16In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- Vote recorded Consent Calendar 2nd SB1189 Valladares et al. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 16Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3920.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Apr 14Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Apr 13From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.Minor
- Mar 27Set for hearing April 13.
- Mar 24From 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.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Mar 10Set for hearing March 24.
- Mar 4Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.Minor
- Feb 20From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- Feb 19Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced