Midwifery: workforce data: availability to be a clinical preceptorship

The data will support statewide planning and public reporting on the clinical-preceptor pipeline needed to educate future midwives. Individual responses remain confidential and cannot affect license renewal or discipline.

What the law does ​

• Requires the Medical Board of California, by April 1, 2027, to ask licensed midwives whether they qualify and are available to serve as clinical preceptors.
• Collects information from eligible midwives on anticipated availability, practice settings, current student-supervision capacity, service counties, and reasons they are unavailable.
• Requires the board to send individual-level preceptor data quarterly to the Department of Health Care Access and Information for statewide workforce planning, analysis, and public reporting.
• Requires the department to report its findings to the Legislature by June 30, 2029.
• Limits public release of the data to nonidentifying aggregate information.
• Ends the midwife-preceptor data provisions on June 30, 2029, with repeal effective January 1, 2030.

Who it affects ​

• Licensed midwives.
• Student midwives enrolled in Medical Board-approved education programs.
• The Medical Board of California and the Department of Health Care Access and Information.

Context ​

The law supplements California’s existing health-workforce data collection system.