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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Respiratory therapy."
+description: "(1) Existing law, the Respiratory Care Practice Act, establishes the Respiratory Care Board of California for the licensure and regulation of respiratory therapy practitioners. Existing law makes a violation of that act a crime and repeals the act on January 1, 2023."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "SB 1436"
+citation: "California SB 1436 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Respiratory therapy."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roth"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2022-02-18"
+last_action: "2022-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13681553-188d-4a50-9f72-8c714b12923b"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436"
+source_hash: "79aeb20e928b1467630d144d3e5e53941f4215b1d7c5da1c8ccc9bb4c517fb4c"
+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 1436 (20212022) — Respiratory therapy.
+
+(1) Existing law, the Respiratory Care Practice Act, establishes the Respiratory Care Board of California for the licensure and regulation of respiratory therapy practitioners. Existing law makes a violation of that act a crime and repeals the act on January 1, 2023.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143699INT)
+2. **04/07/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143698AMD)
+3. **04/19/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143697AMD)
+4. **06/21/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143696AMD)
+5. **09/27/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143694CHP)
+6. **SB1436** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436)
+7. **09/06/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1436&version=20210SB143695ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- SB 1436 Roth Senate Third Reading By Berman — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent SB1436 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roth — primary (person)
+- Berman — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2022-02-18** Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
+- **2022-02-22** From printer.
+- **2022-03-09** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-16** Set for hearing April 18.
+- **2022-04-07** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3413.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-04-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
+- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
+- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
+- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3796.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3876.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2022-05-27** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-28** Coauthors revised.
+- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-03** August 3 hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2022-08-10** August 10 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
+- **2022-08-11** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
+- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6014.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2022-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2022-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5342.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2022-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 624, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13681553-188d-4a50-9f72-8c714b12923b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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