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SB-412 • 2026

Home care aides.

Home care aides.

Crime Education
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Limón
Last action
2025-10-06
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 414, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact nature of the misdemeanor or provide details on the amount of training required annually.

Training Requirements for Home Care Aides

The law requires home care organizations to ensure their aides receive training on caring for clients with dementia before starting work and every year after that.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires home care organizations to make sure their aides get special training about dementia care before they start working.
  • Adds annual dementia care training requirements for home care aides, which must be completed each year.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Home care organizations that hire and train home care aides.
  • Home care aides who work with clients having dementia.

Terms To Know

Dementia
A condition that affects memory, thinking, and behavior in older adults.
State-mandated local program
A program where the state requires local agencies to do something but does not pay for it.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The law starts on January 1, 2027.
  • It is unclear how much training home care aides need to complete each year.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-06 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 414, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-06 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

  4. 2025-09-04 California Legislative Information

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2510.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2768.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. 2025-07-02 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 2).

  9. 2025-06-18 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  10. 2025-06-17 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17).

  11. 2025-05-19 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on HUM. S.

  12. 2025-05-08 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  13. 2025-05-08 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1050.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  14. 2025-05-06 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  15. 2025-05-05 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

  16. 2025-04-25 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing May 5.

  17. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 812.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  18. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

  19. 2025-04-04 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 21.

  20. 2025-04-02 California Legislative Information

    April 7 hearing postponed by committee.

  21. 2025-03-13 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 7.

  22. 2025-02-26 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

  23. 2025-02-18 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.

  24. 2025-02-14 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 412, Limón.
Home care aides.
Existing law, the Home Care Services Consumer Protection Act, requires a home care organization, as defined, to ensure that an affiliated home care aide completes specified training requirements prior to providing home care services, including annual training related to the aide’s clients’ rights and safety and how to provide for a client’s daily living needs. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
This bill would, beginning on January 1, 2027, additionally require a home care organization to ensure that a home care aide completes, prior to providing home care and annually thereafter, training related to the special care needs of clients with
dementia. Because the bill creates new crimes by expanding the act to include additional requirements for home care organizations, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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