diff --git a/homeassistant/components/recorder/history/modern.py b/homeassistant/components/recorder/history/modern.py
index c5206aa5ab9..757ea9c5324 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/recorder/history/modern.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/recorder/history/modern.py
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ def get_last_state_changes(
         )
 
 
-def _get_states_for_entities_stmt(
+def _get_start_time_state_for_entities_stmt(
     run_start_ts: float,
     epoch_time: float,
     metadata_ids: list[int],
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ def _get_start_time_state_stmt(
         )
     # We have more than one entity to look at so we need to do a query on states
     # since the last recorder run started.
-    return _get_states_for_entities_stmt(
+    return _get_start_time_state_for_entities_stmt(
         run_start_ts, epoch_time, metadata_ids, no_attributes
     )
 
diff --git a/tests/components/recorder/test_util.py b/tests/components/recorder/test_util.py
index 4cc4f4b94a8..e1fcccf5187 100644
--- a/tests/components/recorder/test_util.py
+++ b/tests/components/recorder/test_util.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from unittest.mock import MagicMock, Mock, patch
 
 import py
 import pytest
-from sqlalchemy import text
+from sqlalchemy import lambda_stmt, text
 from sqlalchemy.engine.result import ChunkedIteratorResult
 from sqlalchemy.exc import SQLAlchemyError
 from sqlalchemy.sql.elements import TextClause
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from homeassistant.components.recorder import util
 from homeassistant.components.recorder.const import DOMAIN, SQLITE_URL_PREFIX
 from homeassistant.components.recorder.db_schema import RecorderRuns
 from homeassistant.components.recorder.history.modern import (
-    _get_single_entity_states_stmt,
+    _get_single_entity_start_time_stmt,
 )
 from homeassistant.components.recorder.models import (
     UnsupportedDialect,
@@ -909,7 +909,12 @@ def test_execute_stmt_lambda_element(
     with session_scope(hass=hass) as session:
         # No time window, we always get a list
         metadata_id = instance.states_meta_manager.get("sensor.on", session, True)
-        stmt = _get_single_entity_states_stmt(dt_util.utcnow(), metadata_id, False)
+        start_time_ts = dt_util.utcnow().timestamp()
+        stmt = lambda_stmt(
+            lambda: _get_single_entity_start_time_stmt(
+                start_time_ts, metadata_id, False
+            )
+        )
         rows = util.execute_stmt_lambda_element(session, stmt)
         assert isinstance(rows, list)
         assert rows[0].state == new_state.state