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Bill dossier · California 2025–26 session · session closed September 30, 2026
Current through · Last editorial review October 1, 2026 · Original snapshot September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PT (archived below)

AB 1199: Health care provider credentialing

SIGNED SEPTEMBER 30, 2026

Final status · recorded October 1, 2026

SIGNED SEPTEMBER 30, 2026AB 1199 was signed on September 30, 2026. Operative: Jan. 1, 2027†. It is law; the chaptered text is the controlling version. Source: California 2026 Final Legislative Ledger.

Published
September 1, 2026
Originally verified through
September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PT
Final-status update
October 1, 2026
Current through
October 1, 2026

Archived snapshot — originally current through September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PTPreserved as originally published. Superseded by the final status above; lifecycle language, deadlines and “pending” states in this section describe the record as it stood on that date, not the current state. The dossier body below (what the bill does, legislative history, analysis and “what happens next”) is the September record.

ASSEMBLY CONCURRENCE 62–0 · ENROLLMENT/PRESENTMENT NEXT

Bill

AB 1199 (2025-2026)

Internal identity

CA|2025-2026|AB1199

Author

Assembly author of record

Lifecycle

LEGISLATURE PASSED — PRESENTMENT NOT ESTABLISHED

Where it sits

Enrollment / engrossing

Last recorded action

August 31, 2026

Recorded vote

Assembly concurrence 62–0, 31 August

Enrollment

ENROLLMENT/PRESENTMENT NOT YET ESTABLISHED

Governor

No action announced through 15 September 2026

Urgency

None recorded

Chapter

Not applicable

Verification

VERIFIED

Governor deadline

September 30, 2026

Verified

September 15, 2026

Latest recorded action

August 31, 2026. Assembly concurred in Senate amendments, 62–0 (Health Committee had recommended concurrence 13–0 on 27 August). Assembly concurrence 62–0, 31 August.

Concurrence. CONCURRED 31 AUGUST 2026 (62–0).

What the bill does

Concerns credentialing of health-care providers — the verification and approval processes through which a licensed clinician becomes eligible to practise at an institution and to be paid for it.

What it does not do

Legislative passage is complete; not law, not operative. No credentialing obligation changes today. The operative requirements will be those of the chaptered text.

KPSGILL position

No position taken on this bill. Its passage prompted a Policy Lab treatment rather than an endorsement: credentialing modernisation without lowering competency standards separates the six gates routinely discussed as one — licensure, board certification, credentialing, medical-staff membership, privileging and payer enrolment — and opens the measurement question KPSGILL would need answered before recommending anything. It also connects to parallel certification recognition.

Open verification items

Named here rather than answered with an assumption.

  • Enrollment and presentment entries
  • Governor action by 30 September
  • Chaptered text and operative date

What happens next

Governor action deadline: September 30, 2026. That is the session-wide date this desk tracks, not a date computed from this bill’s own presentment: enrolment and presentment for this bill are not established on the record read here, and until they are, no per-bill clock can be stated. Every qualifying measure is tracked on the Governor’s Health Bill Desk; scheduled dates sit on the decision calendar.

Primary sources

Register: the record store · internal identity CA|2025-2026|AB1199 · verification state VERIFIED · tracker: California Legislature 2026.

Bill dossier · revised 18 September 2026, 3:00 PM PT.

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