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 04/23/26 - Amended Senate
 04/15/26 - Amended Senate
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1302 Nursing.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/01/2026 09:00 PM

SB1302:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 01, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 23, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 15, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1302

Introduced by Senator Wahab

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Sections 2701, 2708, 2709, 2730, 2737, 2740, 2746.51, 2746.53, 2760.1, 2770.11, 2785, 2786, 2786.3, 2787, 2788, 2796, 2811.5, 2830.7, 2835, 2836.3, 2837.103, and 2838.2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1302, as amended, Wahab.
 Nursing.

(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs, until January 1, 2027, and sets forth its powers and duties regarding the licensure and regulation of registered nurses. Existing law creates the Board of Registered Nursing Fund and makes all moneys in the fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature. A violation of the act is a crime.

 Existing law requires the board, until January 1, 2027, to appoint an executive officer to perform the duties delegated by the board and to be responsible to the board for the accomplishment of those duties, as specified. Existing law requires the board, for the purpose of transacting its business, to meet at least once every 3 months, at times and places it designates by resolution, and requires those
 meetings to be held in northern and southern California.

This bill would extend those dates until January 1, 2031. The bill would remove the above-described location requirements for meetings held by the board, and, instead, require the board to meet at least once every 3 months in appropriate locations that are necessary to transact its business. are, to the extent practicable, geographically diverse.

(2) Existing law specifies that an approved school of nursing, or an approved nursing program, is one that, among other things, gives a course of instruction approved by the board, as specified. Existing law requires the board to
 prepare and maintain a list of approved schools of nursing whose graduates are eligible to apply for a license to practice nursing, as provided. Existing law requires the board, through its executive officer, to inspect all schools of nursing in the state at the times the board deems necessary, as specified.

This bill would require the board to make the list of approved schools of nursing available on its internet website. The bill would require the inspection criteria to be consistent with the 2020 Nursing Education Approval Guidelines established by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, or its successor, as specified.

Existing law requires an approved school of nursing or a nursing program to meet a minimum of 500 direct patient care clinical hours in a board-approved clinical setting, as specified, and requires additional clinical hours required by the program for nursing education preparation in each nursing
 area as specified by the board to be identified and documented in the curriculum plan for each area.

The bill would require any clinical practice hours that are not required to be in direct patient care and are provided using simulation experiences to be based on the best practices published by, among other specified entities, the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning, or based on any equivalent standards approved by the board.

Existing law authorizes the director of an approved nursing program, until the end of the 2023–24 academic year, or whenever the Governor declares a state of emergency for a county in which an agency or facility used by an approved nursing program for direct patient care clinical practice is no longer available, to submit to a board nursing education consultant requests to, among other things, allow the program to reduce the required number of direct patient care
 hours to, among other requirements, 50% in geriatrics and medical-surgical, if certain conditions are met. Existing law prohibits the approval of that request after the 2023–24 academic year and makes an approved request ex