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type: "Bill"
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title: "Midwifery Workforce Training Act."
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description: "Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information, formerly known as the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to establish a program to contract with programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives in accordance with the global standards for midwifery education and the international definition of \"midwife\" as established by the International Confederation of Midwives in order to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or as a licensed midwife. Existing law requires these provisions to be implemented only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another act."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 836"
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citation: "California AB 836 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["MidwiferyWorkforceTrainingAct"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Stefani"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2025-02-19"
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last_action: "2025-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4299ddf1-1534-4b7d-91a2-3794d5b8b4d5"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836"
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source_hash: "3e4bea6c4351bf0a248e82b17f27809f158a3aa85a7742d8dbe24927fc66be03"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 836 (20252026) — Midwifery Workforce Training Act.
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Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information, formerly known as the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to establish a program to contract with programs that train certified nurse-midwives and programs that train licensed midwives in accordance with the global standards for midwifery education and the international definition of "midwife" as established by the International Confederation of Midwives in order to increase the number of students receiving quality education and training as a certified nurse-midwife or as a licensed midwife. Existing law requires these provisions to be implemented only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another act.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83699INT)
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2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83698AMD)
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3. **06/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83697AMD)
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4. **09/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83696AMD)
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5. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83694CHP)
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6. **AB836** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836)
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7. **09/11/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB836&version=20250AB83695ENR)
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## Votes
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 836 Stefani Assembly Third Reading — **73–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 836 Stefani Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB836 Stefani et al. By Caballero — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Stefani — primary (person)
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- Addis — coauthor (person)
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- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
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- Becker — coauthor (person)
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- Blakespear — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — coauthor (person)
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- Haney — coauthor (person)
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- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
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- Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
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- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
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- Richardson — coauthor (person)
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- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
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- Wahab — coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
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- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 1856.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-03** From special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-03** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2602.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-08** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 3112.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 597, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4299ddf1-1534-4b7d-91a2-3794d5b8b4d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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