State Bill Watch | October 2024

Bill Number

Description

Position

Location

AB 2185

(Jackson D)  

Employment Agencies: Domestic Workers: Would enact important consumer protections that would prohibit Domestic Referral Agencies from collecting fees directly from home care clients to pay home care workers. 

Support

Failed passage in the first policy committee and is dead for the year.  

AB 2340

(Bonta D)  

Medi-Cal EPSDT Services: Would require the Department of Health Care Services to prepare written informational materials that effectively explain and clarify the scope and nature of EPSDT services that are available under the Medi-Cal program.

Support

Pending Governor’s action.

AB 3232

(Dahle, Megan R)  

Licensed Registered Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses: Nurse Licensure Compact: Would enact the Nurse Licensure Compact, under which the Board of Registered Nursing and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians would be authorized to issue a multistate license that would authorize the holder to practice as a registered nurse or a licensed vocational nurse in all party states under a multistate licensure privilege. 

Support

Failed passage in the Assembly Business and Professions Committee.

SB 895

(Roth D)  

Community colleges: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program: Would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes up to 15 community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.  

Support

Pending Governor’s action.

 AB 2104

(Soria)

Community colleges: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program: Would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes up to 15 community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.  

Support

Pending Governor’s action.  

AB 1033 

(Menjivar D)  

Medi-Cal cost reporting: private duty nursing and congregate living health facilities: This bill requires the Department of Health Care Services to do a study of the costs of operating a congregate living health facility, and to do an estimate of the cost of increasing Medi-Cal rates of private duty nursing services to pediatric patients to 87%, and 100%, of the corresponding Medicare rate. 

Support

Pending hearing in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 1492

(Menjivar D)  

Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rates: Private Duty Nursing. Would provide that private duty nursing services provided to a child under 21 years of age by a home health agency are considered eligible for funding from MCO tax revenues. 

Support

Failed passage in the Senate Appropriations Committee.