republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-1495.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Home health aides: training and certification."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate home health agencies and to certify and regulate home health aides. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions or the rules and regulations promulgated under these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law specifically requires an applicant for certification as a home health aide to complete, among other requirements, a training program approved by the department. Under existing law, a certification for a home health aide is renewed every two years, and to renew an unexpired certificate, the certificate holder is required to apply for renewal on a form provided by the state, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1495"
citation: "California AB 1495 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Homehealthaides", "trainingandcertification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valencia"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/714262ec-29ac-4dc3-926a-6207d848f9b6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1495"
source_hash: "c8b6f516c5c94612118398c8882951c83830c67ede142bf3c23f2f16a3878a1d"
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 1495 (20252026) — Home health aides: training and certification.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate home health agencies and to certify and regulate home health aides. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions or the rules and regulations promulgated under these provisions is a misdemeanor. Existing law specifically requires an applicant for certification as a home health aide to complete, among other requirements, a training program approved by the department. Under existing law, a certification for a home health aide is renewed every two years, and to renew an unexpired certificate, the certificate holder is required to apply for renewal on a form provided by the state, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1495&version=20250AB149599INT)
2. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1495&version=20250AB149597CHP)
3. **AB1495** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1495)
4. **08/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1495&version=20250AB149598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1495 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Valencia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1998.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2252.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-26** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 400, 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/714262ec-29ac-4dc3-926a-6207d848f9b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).