{
 "standard": "One object per tracked California bill, keyed jurisdiction + legislativeSession + billNumber. A bill number alone is never a key: numbers are reused across sessions.",
 "asOf": "2026-08-30T12:00:00-07:00",
 "session": "2025-2026 Regular Session",
 "sessionDates": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-21",
   "label": "Ordinary last day to amend bills on the floor",
   "state": "PASSED",
   "note": "A calendar rule. It does not erase a later recorded floor action."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-31",
   "label": "Last day for each house to pass bills",
   "state": "FIXED"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-30",
   "label": "Last day for the Governor to sign or veto qualifying bills",
   "state": "FIXED"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-02",
   "label": "Enactment cutoff relevant to the ordinary 1 January 2027 effective date",
   "state": "FIXED"
  }
 ],
 "bills": [
  {
   "key": "CA|2025-2026|AB1956",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "billNumber": "AB 1956",
   "author": "Valencia",
   "title": "Suicide prevention: boys and young men as a focus population",
   "currentChamber": "Enrolled — signed",
   "lastLegislativeAction": "Approved by the Governor",
   "lastActionDate": "2026-08-28",
   "lifecycle": "ENACTED",
   "enrollmentState": "SIGNED",
   "governorState": "SIGNED 28 AUGUST 2026",
   "chapterNumber": null,
   "effectiveDate": null,
   "operativeDate": null,
   "nextHardDate": null,
   "boardAgendaState": "Not on the August Board agenda",
   "boardPositionState": null,
   "substance": "Amends Health and Safety Code § 131300 so that the Office of Suicide Prevention's youth activities may pay special attention to boys, and adds young men to the list of highest-risk groups on which the office may focus. Requires the office, on or before 1 July 2028, to report to the Legislature on strategies to implement those activities.",
   "limits": "The statute is permissive: the office may focus on these groups. It does not create a duty of care, a clinical standard, or an appropriation. Chapter number and operative date are not stated here because the chaptered text was not read.",
   "verifyBeforePublication": [
    "Chapter number and operative date from the chaptered text / Secretary of State"
   ],
   "primaryLegislativeSource": [
    {
     "label": "Governor of California — signing announcement, 28 August 2026",
     "url": "https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/08/28/governor-newsom-signs-bipartisan-measure-to-strengthen-suicide-prevention-efforts-for-boys-young-men/"
    },
    {
     "label": "LegInfo — AB 1956 text",
     "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1956"
    }
   ],
   "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-30",
   "sourceVerification": "VERIFIED",
   "reviewState": "PENDING_PHYSICIAN_REVIEW"
  },
  {
   "key": "CA|2025-2026|AB1979",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "billNumber": "AB 1979",
   "author": "Bonta",
   "title": "Health care services: artificial intelligence",
   "currentChamber": "Senate",
   "lastLegislativeAction": "Senate committee reported Do Pass (5–2)",
   "lastActionDate": "2026-08-13",
   "lifecycle": "ACTIVE — SENATE FLOOR PENDING",
   "enrollmentState": null,
   "governorState": null,
   "chapterNumber": null,
   "effectiveDate": null,
   "operativeDate": null,
   "nextHardDate": "2026-08-31",
   "boardAgendaState": "Item 7.F, August 2026 Board agenda — considered",
   "boardPositionState": "Official action record pending",
   "limits": "Not enrolled, not passed, not operative. Reports of Assembly concurrence in Senate amendments on 27 August were not corroborated by a source read at the official history, and are not published.",
   "verifyBeforePublication": [
    "Senate third-reading vote",
    "Assembly concurrence",
    "engrossing/enrolling entry"
   ],
   "primaryLegislativeSource": [
    {
     "label": "LegiScan — AB 1979 action history",
     "url": "https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB1979/2025"
    }
   ],
   "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-29",
   "sourceVerification": "VERIFIED TO 13 AUGUST",
   "reviewState": "PENDING_PHYSICIAN_REVIEW"
  },
  {
   "key": "CA|2025-2026|AB2575",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "billNumber": "AB 2575",
   "author": "Ortega",
   "title": "Health care services: artificial intelligence",
   "currentChamber": "Senate",
   "lastLegislativeAction": "Read second time; ordered to third reading",
   "lastActionDate": "2026-08-24",
   "lifecycle": "ACTIVE — THIRD READING PENDING",
   "vote": "Senate Appropriations, 13 August: do pass as amended, 5–2",
   "reconsiderationState": "NOT ESTABLISHED",
   "latestTextDate": "NOT ESTABLISHED AFTER 24 AUGUST",
   "enrollmentState": null,
   "governorState": null,
   "chapterNumber": null,
   "effectiveDate": null,
   "operativeDate": null,
   "nextHardDate": "2026-08-31",
   "boardAgendaState": "Item 7.J, August 2026 Board agenda — considered",
   "boardPositionState": "Official action record pending",
   "substance": "Would require health facilities using clinical decision support software to make an inventory available to clinicians on request from 1 July 2027, and would bar an AI-tool defendant from asserting a clinician's non-adherence to the tool as a defence.",
   "limits": "Two competing accounts of 28 August floor activity have been reported to this desk — one that passage was refused and reconsideration granted, one that the bill was further amended that day. Neither was located in an official chamber history read here. Neither is published. The site does not state that the text was frozen on 21 August, and does not state that the bill failed.",
   "verifyBeforePublication": [
    "Senate Daily Journal for 27–28 August 2026",
    "any third-reading vote and reconsideration entry",
    "any post-24 August amended text"
   ],
   "primaryLegislativeSource": [
    {
     "label": "LegiScan — AB 2575 action history",
     "url": "https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB2575/2025"
    }
   ],
   "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-30",
   "sourceVerification": "VERIFIED TO 24 AUGUST",
   "reviewState": "PENDING_PHYSICIAN_REVIEW"
  },
  {
   "key": "CA|2025-2026|AB539",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "billNumber": "AB 539",
   "author": "Schiavo",
   "title": "Prior authorization: duration of approval",
   "currentChamber": "Senate",
   "lastLegislativeAction": "Cleared Senate Appropriations suspense file",
   "lastActionDate": "2026-08-03",
   "lifecycle": "ACTIVE — SENATE FLOOR PENDING",
   "nextHardDate": "2026-08-31",
   "chapterNumber": null,
   "effectiveDate": null,
   "operativeDate": null,
   "boardAgendaState": "Not among the August Board AI items",
   "boardPositionState": null,
   "substance": "Would require a health plan's or insurer's prior authorization for a service to remain valid for at least one year.",
   "limits": "No current payer obligation arises from this bill. Reported Assembly concurrence on 26 August was not corroborated at the official history and is not published.",
   "verifyBeforePublication": [
    "Senate third-reading vote",
    "Assembly concurrence",
    "engrossing/enrolling entry"
   ],
   "primaryLegislativeSource": [
    {
     "label": "LegiScan — AB 539 action history",
     "url": "https://legiscan.com/CA/bill/AB539/2025"
    }
   ],
   "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-29",
   "sourceVerification": "VERIFIED TO 3 AUGUST",
   "reviewState": "PENDING_PHYSICIAN_REVIEW"
  },
  {
   "key": "CA|2025-2026|SB164",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "billNumber": "SB 164",
   "author": "Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review",
   "title": "Health omnibus: home health agency licensure moratorium",
   "currentChamber": "Enacted",
   "lastLegislativeAction": "Passed and effective on enactment",
   "lastActionDate": "2026-06-29",
   "lifecycle": "EFFECTIVE",
   "governorState": "ENACTED",
   "effectiveDate": "2026-06-29",
   "substance": "Added Health and Safety Code § 1728.9, barring new home health agency licences and new branch offices during a moratorium, and § 1728.95, allowing an exception on a written finding of unmet need in the proposed service area.",
   "limits": "Chapter number, the moratorium's outer end date, and the operational detail of CDPH's All Facilities Letter 26-28 are not stated here: the chaptered text and the AFL itself have not been read at CDPH.",
   "verifyBeforePublication": [
    "Chapter number",
    "CDPH AFL 26-28 full text",
    "any CDPH deadline for existing agencies"
   ],
   "primaryLegislativeSource": [
    {
     "label": "California Department of Finance — trailer bill text, HSC §§ 1728.9, 1728.95, 1734",
     "url": "https://trailerbill.dof.ca.gov/public/trailerBill/pdf/1481"
    }
   ],
   "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-08-30",
   "sourceVerification": "STATUTE VERIFIED — AFL HELD",
   "reviewState": "PENDING_PHYSICIAN_REVIEW"
  }
 ],
 "heldBills": {
  "note": "Bills on the August Medical Board agenda not individually re-read at their newest official history. They stay in the pre-meeting analysis as historical agenda context and carry no current lifecycle claim.",
  "list": [
   "SB 942",
   "AB 1637",
   "SB 626",
   "AB 1199",
   "SB 903"
  ]
 },
 "generated": "2026-08-30"
}