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Bill	Nurses: implicit bias courses.	Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, requires the Board of Registered Nursing to prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of nursing in this state whose graduates are eligible to apply for a license to practice nursing. Existing law specifies that an approved school of nursing, or an approved nursing program, is one that has been approved by the board, gives the course of instruction approved by the board, covering not less than 2 academic years, is affiliated or conducted in connection with one or more hospitals, and is an institution of higher education.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1407	California AB 1407 (20212022)	bill	Nurses: implicit bias courses.	enacted	Burke	7	27	8	2021-02-19	2021-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/7e7c4d97-b39b-4567-a7ef-ef7ee4984828	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1407	9935d04be15af1e9a5e3d037da3cfe51fa7d7cef532ac0459971910b3837cba7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1407 (20212022) — Nurses: implicit bias courses.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, requires the Board of Registered Nursing to prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of nursing in this state whose graduates are eligible to apply for a license to practice nursing. Existing law specifies that an approved school of nursing, or an approved nursing program, is one that has been approved by the board, gives the course of instruction approved by the board, covering not less than 2 academic years, is affiliated or conducted in connection with one or more hospitals, and is an institution of higher education.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1407 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1407 Burke et al. By Bradford — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 1407 Burke Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1407 Burke Assembly Third Reading — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 12–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)
• Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1547.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 1. Page 2222.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-01 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
• 2021-09-01 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 2657.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 445, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7e7c4d97-b39b-4567-a7ef-ef7ee4984828. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).