State Policy
State Legislation
Below is a list of key state bills that CAPH is actively tracking during the 2025 legislative session. Bills are organized by CAPH’s position.
Oppose
AB 339 (Ortega) — Local Public Employee Organizations: Notice Requirements
Would require public hospitals and health systems to give unions at least 120 days‘ written notice before issuing requests for proposals (RFPs), renewing contracts, or revising job classifications. CAPH opposes the bill due to concerns about operational delays and workforce flexibility. CAPH’s opposition letter can be found here.
AB 1337 (Ward) – Information Practices Act of 1977
Expands privacy and data sharing policies, under the Information Practices Act, to all local entities including public health care systems. The expanded policies would be duplicative and do not align with HIPPA or CMIA. If passed, AB 1337 further subjects’ health care providers to data sharing restrictions that may interfere with timely patient care, and risks straining already limited financial resources to train staff on new requirements and administrative processes. CAPH is opposed through a coalition and the letter can be found here.
SB 632 (Arreguín) — Workers’ Compensation: Hospital Employees
Creates presumptive eligibility for workers’ compensation if hospital workers contract respiratory and infectious diseases like COVID-19, creating the assumption that the employee became ill while working. CAPH opposes the bill, warning it could strain resources and impact the financial stability of public hospitals. CAPH’s opposition letter can be found here.
Support
AB 618 (Krell) — Medi-Cal: Behavioral Health: Data Sharing
Requires DHCS to create a statewide data-sharing framework among Medi-Cal plans, counties, and providers, to standardize sharing behavioral health data. CAPH supports this will as it will improve coordinated care for behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment for Medi-Cal patients. CAPH’s support letter can be found here.
AB 539 (Schiavo) — Health care coverage: prior authorizations
Requires a health care service plan’s or health insurer’s prior authorization for a service to remain valid for at least one year from the date of approval, or throughout the course of prescribed treatment if less than one year. By reducing redundant paperwork and streamlining administrative processes, this legislation would reduce repeated requests and resubmissions which risk delaying timely patient care. CAPH’s support letter can be found here.
State Policy Archive
Learn about CAPH's key state legislative priorities from past legislative sessions.