AB-1811 Health professionals
Sep 27, 2026 edition · GC-2026-0067 · Published 2026-09-27 · Version 2 · Proposed
AB 1811 proposes expanded workforce data and a temporary state shortage-area definition while preserving voluntary licensee responses and privacy limits.
What happened
AB 1811 proposes defining health-professional shortage areas for state-law purposes to include current federal designations, areas federally designated on January 1, 2025 even if later removed, and areas HCAI determines have shortages. The proposed definition would last until January 1, 2035 and allows HCAI to revoke the specified preserved or state-created designations. It is not a declaration that every state-designated area receives every federal program benefit or that a future designation is already approved.
The bill also proposes workforce collection or requests at initial licensure and at least biennially, additional fields including inpatient/outpatient hours and sliding-fee availability, and monthly board-to-HCAI transfers. A named speech/audiology/hearing board has a July 2027 initial-issuance exception, and coordination with SB 1271 has express enactment/order conditions. Licensees still cannot be required to provide the listed workforce information as a renewal condition or disciplined for withholding it; confidentiality and aggregate-release limits remain. For the covered week, these are proposed planning and reporting changes with different agency and individual roles.
Scope and timing
- Authority status
- Proposed
- Applicability
- General intelligence
- Audience
- Health systems, Provider networks
- Jurisdiction
- California
Why it matters
Workforce planning definitions and board data flows do not turn optional clinician survey answers into a new renewal prerequisite.
Recommended action
Monitor the proposal, review workforce-survey and shortage-area assumptions with Legal, and distinguish board reporting processes from voluntary licensee participation and existing mandatory reports.
Sources
- AB-1811 Health professionals, bill historyOfficial · California Legislature · 2026-08-30 · Source review 2026-09-10
- AB-1811 Health professionals, current bill text (09/03/26 - Enrolled)Official · California Legislature · 2026-09-03 · Source review 2026-09-10
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