republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-116.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health omnibus trailer bill."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nurse-to-patient ratios by licensed nurse classification and by hospital unit for all general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals. Existing law requires the regulations adopted by the department for acute psychiatric hospitals that are not operated by the State Department of State Hospitals to take into account the special needs of the patients served in the psychiatric units. Existing law generally makes a willful violation of those licensing provisions a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 116"
citation: "California AB 116 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Healthomnibustrailerbill"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/416d0c8c-08cc-4112-9230-9462e5bed848"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116"
source_hash: "9cc1402297c5e1e1759b400b4d46bfab1653403609095dc9a82d0b84808cb986"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 116 (20252026) — Health omnibus trailer bill.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations that establish minimum, specific, and numerical licensed nurse-to-patient ratios by licensed nurse classification and by hospital unit for all general acute care hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and special hospitals. Existing law requires the regulations adopted by the department for acute psychiatric hospitals that are not operated by the State Department of State Hospitals to take into account the special needs of the patients served in the psychiatric units. Existing law generally makes a willful violation of those licensing provisions a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/08/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116&version=20250AB11699INT)
2. **06/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116&version=20250AB11698AMD)
3. **06/30/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116&version=20250AB11696CHP)
4. **AB116** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116)
5. **06/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB116&version=20250AB11697ENR)

## Votes

- AB 116 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — **58–15** (pass) · lower
- AB 116 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — **53–17** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **11–6** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB116 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — **25–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-09** From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2025-03-17** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-03-17** (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
- **2025-03-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 721.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 10. Page 1804.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-06-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 2329.)
- **2025-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 2332.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-06-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 21, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/416d0c8c-08cc-4112-9230-9462e5bed848`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).