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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Healing arts: clinical laboratories."
+description: "Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health, with specified exceptions. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law authorizes a person who is licensed under those provisions to perform certain laboratory tests."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 613"
+citation: "California AB 613 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Healing arts: clinical laboratories."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nazarian"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-02-14"
+last_action: "2018-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3322449d-e42a-4353-ac84-582c30a26b96"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613"
+source_hash: "e33861c29e002278725164e78c8c0be4aea744e09800b472ee2fb51866cf2c12"
+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 AB 613 (20172018) — Healing arts: clinical laboratories.
+
+Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health, with specified exceptions. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law authorizes a person who is licensed under those provisions to perform certain laboratory tests.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61399INT)
+2. **03/27/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61398AMD)
+3. **04/25/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61397AMD)
+4. **08/21/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61394AMD)
+5. **08/23/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61396AMD)
+6. **08/29/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61395AMD)
+7. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61392CHP)
+8. **AB613** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613)
+9. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB613&version=20170AB61393ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB613 Nazarian et al. By Hill — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 613 NAZARIAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nazarian — primary (person)
+- Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
+- **2017-03-23** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-04-25** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1539.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-05** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2017-07-11** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2017-08-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2017-08-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-08-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-09-05** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Newman.
+- **2018-08-21** From inactive file.
+- **2018-08-21** Ordered to second reading.
+- **2018-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5775.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6846.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 799, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3322449d-e42a-4353-ac84-582c30a26b96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+