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 SB-915 Health care provider entities: patients accompanied by immigration enforcement officers.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/28/2026 09:00 PM

SB915:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

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 April 28, 2026

 Amended
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 April 16, 2026

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 April 09, 2026

 Amended
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 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 915

Introduced by Senator Menjivar
(Principal coauthor: Senator Arreguín)

January 27, 2026

 An act to add Chapter 2.1 (commencing with Section 24258) to Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health and care facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 915, as amended, Menjivar.
 Health care provider entities: patients accompanied by immigration enforcement officers.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health is responsible for the licensing and regulation of various facilities and settings that provide health care services, as specified. Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act prohibits, except to the extent expressly authorized by a patient, enrollee, or subscriber, or as otherwise permitted or required, a provider of health care, health care service plan, contractor, or corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from disclosing medical information for immigration enforcement. Existing law requires health care provider entities, as defined, to establish or amend procedures for monitoring, documenting, and receiving visitors to health care provider entities to the extent possible, and prohibits, unless required by state or federal law, a health care provider entity and its personnel from allowing any person
 access to nonpublic areas of the provider’s facilities for immigration enforcement purposes, except as specified.

This bill would, among other things, require a health care provider entity to, when there is a patient accompanied by an immigration enforcement officer, verify and document the identities and agencies of the accompanying immigration enforcement officers, to the extent possible. The bill would require a health care provider entity to ask an immigration enforcement officer to step out of the patient’s room when discussing any matters pertaining to patient care, or performing any physical examination, or providing any medical care, except as specified, would prohibit an immigration enforcement officer from having any authority to make, influence, or participate in medical decisions on behalf of patient they accompany, and would require the health care provider entity personnel to report a refusal to comply with the requirements of this bill to the health
 care provider entity management, administration, or legal counsel, who is required to then document the actions, and, to the extent possible, the name and badge number of an immigration enforcement officer. The bill would also prohibit a health care provider entity from using blackout policies when admitting a patient who is accompanied by an immigration enforcement officer, except as specified, and defines blackout policies to mean any policy that is used by health care provider entities to conceal a patient’s presence or identity at the entity’s facility, including, but not limited to, registering patients under a pseudonym, removing the patient’s name from the health care provider entity’s directory, or prohibiting personnel from confirming that a patient is in the health care provider entity.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Chapter 2.1 (commencing with Section 24258) is added to Division 20 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 2.1. Patients Accompanied by Immigration Enforcement Officers

24258.

 For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Blackout policies” means any policy that is used by health care provider entities to conceal a patient’s presence or identity at the entity’s facility, including, but not limited to, registering patients