20250AB__186898AMD INTRODUCED 2026-02-11 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-06-08 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Hadwick (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Hadwick)</caml:AuthorText>"?> (Coauthors: Assembly Members Jeff Gonzalez, Johnson, Macedo, Ellis, and Wallis) <caml:Contribution>LEAD_AUTHOR</caml:Contribution><caml:House>ASSEMBLY</caml:House><caml:Name>Gallagher</caml:Name></caml:Legislator>"?> LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Hadwick <caml:Contribution>PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR</caml:Contribution><caml:House>ASSEMBLY</caml:House><caml:Name>Hadwick</caml:Name></caml:Legislator>"?> COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Jeff Gonzalez COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Johnson COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Macedo COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Ellis COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Wallis

An act to add

Section 1255.4 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health facilities. health facilities Health facilities: cardiac surgery. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes a general acute care hospital to be approved to offer special services, including, among others, cardiac surgery.

Existing regulation requires, when a general acute care hospital is providing cardiovascular operative service, that a minimum of surgeons constitute a surgical team if the procedure requires extracorporeal bypass. This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2030, to update that regulation to reflect current professional standards of care relating to extracorporeal bypass surgery. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 1255.4 is added to the Health and Safety Code , to read: 1255.4. On or before January 1, 2030, the department shall update paragraph (2) of subdivision (

b) of

Section of Title of the California Code of Regulations to reflect current professional standards of care relating to extracorporeal bypass surgery.