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AB 1068: Emergency services available during natural disasters.
What AB 1068 does, verified December 7, 2025
The bill aims to improve the evacuation and sheltering needs of older adults and persons with disabilities living in long-term care facilities during natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies. It requires the Secretary of the California Department of Aging to develop a working group that makes recommendations on evacuation and sheltering needs. The recommendations must be submitted to the state by July 1, 2027, and the requirement to develop the working group will be repealed on January 1, 2030.
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Last action: In committee: Held under submission. (2025-06-02)Alert me
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| Aug. 29, 2025 | In committee: Held under submission. |
| Aug. 18, 2025 | In committee: Referred to suspense file. |
| Jul. 08, 2025 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. |
| Jul. 01, 2025 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. |
| Jul. 01, 2025 | From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. |
Latest bill textAmended version, July 1, 2025 · 528 words
| Amended IN Senate July 01, 2025 |
| Amended IN Assembly April 03, 2025 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1068
| Introduced by Assembly Member Bains (Coauthor: Senator Cervantes) |
February 20, 2025 |
An act to add and repeal Section 9114.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to older adults.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1068, as amended, Bains. Emergency services available during natural disasters.
Existing law, the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, establishes, among others, the California Department of Aging in the California Health and Human Services Agency, also known as CalHHS and headed by the Secretary of CalHHS, and sets forth its mission to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of long-term health care facilities, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law requires, among other things, the department to administer the Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) program.
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No later than July 1, 2026, this bill would require the Secretary of CalHHS, in coordination with various state departments, offices, and other entities, as specified, to develop a working group to make recommendations regarding the evacuation and sheltering needs of older adults and persons with disabilities living in long-term care facilities during natural, technological, or manmade disasters and emergencies. The bill would require the Secretary of CalHHS to submit the recommendations no later than July 1, 2026, 2027, and would repeal that requirement on January 1, 2030.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 9114.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:9114.5.
(a) No later than(1) The California Department of Aging.
(2) The California Department of Rehabilitation.
(3) The Emergency Medical Services Authority.
(4) The Office of Emergency Services.
(5) The Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
(6) The State Department of Public Health.
(7) The State Department of Social Services.
(8) Stakeholders representing long-term care facility operators, staff, and residents, local government, foundations, and academic researchers.
(b) No later than July 1, 2026, 2027, the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency shall submit the recommendations of the workgroup to the Office of the Governor and to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the identification of statutory and regulatory changes that are needed to implement the evacuation and sheltering needs of older adults and persons with disabilities living in long-term care facilities.
(c) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2030.
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