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Bill	Nursing schools and programs.	Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. Existing law establishes the Nursing Education and Workforce Advisory Committee within the jurisdiction of the board and requires the committee to solicit input from specified groups to study and recommend nursing education standards and solutions to workforce issues to the board.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1015	California SB 1015 (20232024)	bill	Nursing schools and programs	enacted	Cortese	5	25	7	2024-02-05	2024-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/605c93fb-1df4-46cd-8498-8b8d24bf96a2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1015	1839ea92342a6685c2bb8e8e2d544370327a87b6dd06cc1818d3cebf07a734dd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1015 (20232024) — Nursing schools and programs.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. Existing law establishes the Nursing Education and Workforce Advisory Committee within the jurisdiction of the board and requires the committee to solicit input from specified groups to study and recommend nursing education standards and solutions to workforce issues to the board.

Version chain

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

1. 02/05/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/27/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB1015 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB1015 Cortese et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1015 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Bains — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cortese — primary (person)
• Bains — coauthor (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-05 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-06 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 7.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-04 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2024-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3511.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-22 April 22 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3968.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4179.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 Coauthors revised.
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 June 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6526.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 776, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/605c93fb-1df4-46cd-8498-8b8d24bf96a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).