Advocacy

Developments related to AB 890:  Awaiting a vote on the floor of the Senate. That vote may move AB 890 to the Assembly for a vote of concurrence in Senate amendments! We must use a backup strategy right now!! AB 890. Fellow advocates. Constituents should target the following Assemblymembers. It [...]

AB 890. Assemblymember Wood’s Nurse Practitioner bill moved off the suspense file to the Senate floor. I am busy lining up appointments with key senators to convince them to help prevent its passage. Chalk up one who has pledged not to vote yes on it. Political calculus on votes tells us we need to keep up [...]

AB 890. The clock is ticking as AB 890 sits in the Senate Appropriations Committee after passing out of the Senate Business and Professions Committee, 7-1. Lobbyists will meet this afternoon after publication time (August 14), after having met last Monday (August 10) to conduct a postmortem. The consensus was the opposition [...]

AB 890. Nurse Practitioner Bill Amended and set for hearing. Saturday, August 8 at 11am. Teleconference participation instructions HERE for your “me too” testimony. Live-streaming will be available at www.senate.ca.gov for you to observe. AB 890 is first up on the agenda in a special order of business. Expect the special order of business to [...]

COVID-19 crossfire. Winning will have to wait for 2021. A COVID-19 crossfire ended the forward progress of CPA sponsored AB 1976 and AB 2015. In preparing to reconvene on the July 27th ending of an enforced recess both houses notified bill authors about bills moving forward. Or not. CPA’s won’t. Merit. Neither AB 1976 (Eggman) nor [...]

AB 890 appears to have escaped the winnowing process, is poised to be heard in committee with significant amendments: the proposed stand-alone NP board to oversee independent practice has been struck from the bill. Independent practice oversight now goes to the Board of Registered Nursing. NPs would be relegated to a [...]