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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Medical services: credit."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a healing arts licensee, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners, from referring a person for certain health care services if the licensee has a financial interest, as defined, with the person or entity that receives the referral. Existing law provides specified exemptions from this prohibition. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing referrals is a crime."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20132014"
+identifier: "SB 1256"
+citation: "California SB 1256 (20132014)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Medical services: credit."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2014-02-21"
+last_action: "2014-08-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f85bbe2e-3281-48fd-8d6a-b1de028eabfa"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256"
+source_hash: "5e8ad5e80fdae58a8ef9f708993d5dd4bc3f4b7a64065b77625b0092d90d971f"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California SB 1256 (20132014) — Medical services: credit.
+
+Existing law prohibits a healing arts licensee, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners, from referring a person for certain health care services if the licensee has a financial interest, as defined, with the person or entity that receives the referral. Existing law provides specified exemptions from this prohibition. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing referrals is a crime.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125699INT)
+2. **04/29/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125698AMD)
+3. **06/11/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125697AMD)
+4. **06/25/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125696AMD)
+5. **08/22/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125694CHP)
+6. **SB1256** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256)
+7. **08/12/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1256&version=20130SB125695ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 1256 Mitchell Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent #14 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB1256 Mitchell Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mitchell — primary (person)
+- Skinner — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
+- **2014-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
+- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
+- **2014-03-06** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-03-20** Set for hearing April 7.
+- **2014-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3078.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2014-04-10** Set for hearing April 22.
+- **2014-04-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3235.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
+- **2014-05-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
+- **2014-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-05-14** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3468.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2014-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2014-05-23** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-06-10** Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2014-06-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-07-02** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2014-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5916.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2014-08-07** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2014-08-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4403.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-08-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2014-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2014-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 256, Statutes of 2014.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f85bbe2e-3281-48fd-8d6a-b1de028eabfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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