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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 588: Health facilities: freestanding emergency center study.

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 588 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Health facilities: freestanding emergency center study. Primary sponsor: Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh (R). Most recent recorded action (February 2, 2026): Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

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 authorizes a general acute care hospital, as defined, to offer special services, including, but not limited to, emergency medical services. Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information to oversee and administer various health programs related to health care infrastructure, such as health policy and planning, health professions development, and facilities design review and construction, among others.

This bill would require the Department of Health Care Access and Information to conduct a feasibility study on the implementation of freestanding emergency departments, as defined, in rural, disadvantaged, and underserved areas with limited access to emergency care. The bill would require that the study be conducted in collaboration with certain stakeholders and that the department issue a report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2027, with its findings and recommendations. The bill would appropriate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the department for those purposes. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Rosilicie Ochoa BoghPrimary 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. Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
  2. January 14 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author.
  3. Set for hearing January 14.
  4. April 30 set for first hearing. Testimony taken. Further hearing to be set.
  5. Set for hearing April 30.
  6. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  7. April 23 hearing postponed by committee.
  8. Set for hearing April 23.
  9. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  10. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
  11. Referred to Com. on RLS.
  12. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

Sources

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