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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 1189: Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient.

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

SB 1189 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Advance health care directive of a skilled nursing facility patient. . Primary sponsor: Suzette Martinez Valladares (R). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (August 31, 2026): Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

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, 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Suzette Martinez ValladaresPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate23
Rosilicie Ochoa BoghCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate19

“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. Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.
  2. Ordered to third reading.
  3. Action rescinded whereby bill was read third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
  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.
  8. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
  9. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 9).
  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  11. Referred to Com. on JUD.
  12. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Sources

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