Skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities: training programs.
Existing law requires a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility to adopt an approved training program, which is required to include a precertification training program consisting of at least 60 classroom hours of training on basic nursing skills, patient safety and rights, the social and psychological problems of patients, and resident abuse prevention, recognition, and reporting and at least 100 hours of supervised and on-the-job training clinical practice. Existing law requires at least 2 hours of the 60 hours of classroom training and at least 4 hours of the 100 hours of the supervised clinical training to address the special needs of persons with developmental and mental disorders, including intellectual disability, Alzheimer's disease, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and mental illness. Violation of these provisions is a crime.
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SB 449
California SB 449 (20172018)
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Skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities: training programs.
California SB 449 (20172018) — Skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities: training programs.
Existing law requires a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility to adopt an approved training program, which is required to include a precertification training program consisting of at least 60 classroom hours of training on basic nursing skills, patient safety and rights, the social and psychological problems of patients, and resident abuse prevention, recognition, and reporting and at least 100 hours of supervised and on-the-job training clinical practice. Existing law requires at least 2 hours of the 60 hours of classroom training and at least 4 hours of the 100 hours of the supervised clinical training to address the special needs of persons with developmental and mental disorders, including intellectual disability, Alzheimer's disease, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson's disease, and mental illness. Violation of these provisions is a crime.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2017-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-03-29 Set for hearing April 5.
2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 624.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-04-13 Set for hearing April 24.
2017-04-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2017-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-04-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 874.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-04-27 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2017-05-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2017-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-07-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2474.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-07-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2017-07-10 Ordered to the Assembly.
2017-07-11 In Assembly. Held at Desk.
2017-07-17 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
2017-07-17 Ordered to third reading.
2017-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2017-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2842.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2017-09-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-09-05 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2479.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2017-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2017-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 282, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e15b67e0-cf63-4b37-8823-1ab5954dc95b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).