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Bill	Nurse anesthetists: scope of practice.	Existing law, the Nurse Anesthetists Act, provides for the certification and regulation of nurse anesthetists by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law requires the utilization of a nurse anesthetist to provide anesthesia services in an acute care facility to be approved by the acute care facility administration and the appropriate committee, as defined, and at the discretion of the physician, dentist, or podiatrist. Existing law makes a nurse anesthetist who is not an employee of an acute care facility subject to the bylaws of the facility.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 876	California AB 876 (20252026)	bill	Nurseanesthetists scopeofpractice	enacted	Flora	6	23	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/77b68c30-502e-4f83-b49e-2b7603947a7a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB876	c7fc2d5746de4086344afc6d9e171eab4afdc847bc90d55a0c7559f9c08f243a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 876 (20252026) — Nurse anesthetists: scope of practice.

Existing law, the Nurse Anesthetists Act, provides for the certification and regulation of nurse anesthetists by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law requires the utilization of a nurse anesthetist to provide anesthesia services in an acute care facility to be approved by the acute care facility administration and the appropriate committee, as defined, and at the discretion of the physician, dentist, or podiatrist. Existing law makes a nurse anesthetist who is not an employee of an acute care facility subject to the bylaws of the facility.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/09/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB876 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 876 Flora Assembly Third Reading — 61–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 876 Flora Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB876 Flora By Ashby Reconsider — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB876 Flora By Ashby — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB876 Flora By Ashby — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Flora — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 1. Page 1563.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-28 Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 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
• 2025-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2437.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2438.)
• 2025-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2438.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 2929.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 169, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/77b68c30-502e-4f83-b49e-2b7603947a7a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).