republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-520.md

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Bill	Nurse-midwifery education program.	Existing law creates the Vocational Nurse Education Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information for persons agreeing to serve in an eligible county health facility, state-operated health facility, or a health workforce shortage area, before completing vocational nursing school. Existing law authorizes a person who qualifies for admission to a vocational nursing program to apply for funding under the program, as specified. Existing law establishes the Vocational Nurse Education Fund for the purpose of promoting the education of vocational nurses and related administrative costs.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 520	California SB 520 (20252026)	bill	Nurse-midwiferyeducationprogram	enacted	Caballero	5	26	8	2025-02-19	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/ad36e919-be98-4dc3-a0ef-03567e580be9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB520	346a3c9e64fbb5649898ba47bc5b33893bed6c31a181475fc90d0867a74d628a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 520 (20252026) — Nurse-midwifery education program.

Existing law creates the Vocational Nurse Education Program within the Department of Health Care Access and Information for persons agreeing to serve in an eligible county health facility, state-operated health facility, or a health workforce shortage area, before completing vocational nursing school. Existing law authorizes a person who qualifies for admission to a vocational nursing program to apply for funding under the program, as specified. Existing law establishes the Vocational Nurse Education Fund for the purpose of promoting the education of vocational nurses and related administrative costs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB520 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/10/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB520 Caballero et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 520 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Bonta — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Becker — coauthor (person)
• Bonta — coauthor (person)
• Carrillo — coauthor (person)
• Cervantes — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Krell — coauthor (person)
• Macedo — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Stefani — coauthor (person)
• Valladares — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-19 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 965.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-02 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2025-05-12 May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1203.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1327.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2994.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 601, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ad36e919-be98-4dc3-a0ef-03567e580be9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).