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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1868: Health facilities: cardiac surgery.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1868 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 11, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Health facilities: cardiac surgery. Primary sponsor: Heather Hadwick (R). It lists 5 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (August 13, 2026): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to be approved to offer special services, including, among others, cardiac surgery. Existing regulation requires, when a general acute care hospital is providing cardiovascular operative service, that a minimum of 3 surgeons constitute a surgical team if the procedure requires extracorporeal bypass.

This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, to update that regulation to reflect current professional standards of care relating to extracorporeal bypass surgery.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 6

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Heather HadwickPrimary sponsorRepublicanAssembly1
Stan EllisCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly32
Jeff GonzalezCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly36
Natasha JohnsonCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly63
Alexandra MacedoCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly33
Greg WallisCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly47

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. 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.
  4. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  5. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  6. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  7. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5301.)
  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  9. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
  10. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (March 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. Coauthors revised.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page