CA SB1179 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

California Senate Bill 1179

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: Introduced on February 18 2026 - 25% progression
Action: 2026-05-14 - May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
Pending: Senate Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

An act to add Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 2130) to Chapter 5 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

Doctors from El Salvador Program.

2026-04-27 - Senate - Placed on suspense file (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2026-04-13 - Senate - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (Y: 10 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-05-14	Senate	May 14 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
2026-05-08	Senate	Set for hearing May 14.
2026-04-27	Senate	April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2026-04-17	Senate	Set for hearing April 27.
2026-04-13	Senate	From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3840.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-09	Senate	From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
2026-04-08	Senate	Set for hearing April 13.
2026-02-26	Senate	Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
2026-02-19	Senate	From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
2026-02-18	Senate	Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Chapter	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
Business and Professions Code	2130	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1179
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1179#99INT
Text	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1179#98AMD
Roll Call	https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1179