2025 Legislative Updates
The following are bills that were considered by the Board of Registered Nursing during the second year of the 2024-2025 Legislative Session and were ultimately passed by the Legislature then signed into law by Governor Newsom.
For a list of every bill the Board took a position on this year and the outcome of each bill, please visit the following: 2025 Board Positions
Because most bills contain multiple provisions, please refer to the bills themselves for complete details. The bills can also be accessed through the California Legislative Information website.
Assembly Bills
- AB 260 (Aguiar-Curry) Sexual and reproductive health care
This bill, among other changes, would prohibit subjecting a healing arts practitioner who is authorized to prescribe, furnish, order, or administer dangerous drugs to civil, criminal, disciplinary, or other administrative action for prescribing, furnishing, ordering, or administering mifepristone or other medication abortion drugs for a use that is different from the use for which that drug has been approved for marketing by the US Food and Drug Administration or that varies from an approved risk evaluation and mitigation strategy under federal law.
The bill would state that the laws of another state or federal actions that interfere with the authority of a healing arts practitioner to take specified actions relating to mifepristone or other medication abortion drugs are against the public policy of this state. The bill would prohibit criminal, civil, professional discipline, or licensing actions against an applicant or licensee for manufacturing, transporting, or engaging in certain other acts relating to mifepristone or other medication abortion drugs.
- AB 489 (Bonta) Health care professions: deceptive terms or letters: artificial intelligence
This bill prohibits artificial intelligence (AI) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems from misrepresenting themselves as licensed or certified healthcare professionals and provides state licensing boards or enforcement agencies the authority to pursue legal recourse against developers or deployers of AI or GenAI systems.
- AB 583 (Pellerin) Death certificates
This bill adds nurse practitioners to the list of health care practitioners last in attendance who are required to complete and attest to the medical and health section and time of death on a death certificate in specified facilities and imposes the same requirements on nurse practitioners that are currently placed on physicians and physician assistants for the purpose of reporting deaths.
- AB 836 (Stefani) Midwifery Workforce Training Act
This bill requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information, upon appropriation from the Legislature, to administer funding for a statewide study on midwifery education conducted by an outside consultant familiar with the health care and midwifery landscapes and workforce in California.
- AB 876 (Flora) Nurse anesthetists: scope of practice
This bill defines anesthesia services for purposes of clarifying the practice authority of a certified nurse anesthetist. The bill specifies that an order by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist for anesthesia services for a specific patient shall be the authorization for the nurse anesthetist to select and implement the modality of anesthesia for the patient and to abort or modify the modality of anesthesia for the patient during care and makes other technical clarifications.
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