---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure."
description: "Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1975"
citation: "California AB 1975 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2000-02-18"
last_action: "2000-09-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50e9c607-f871-44b3-b824-d18dc814f880"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975"
source_hash: "9e13aeabb71399b3ba5160270f98b8d2b920355571324d64f1708fe47201d411"
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 1975 (19992000) — Professional personnel: psychologists: waiver of licensure.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/18/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197599INT)
2. **03/23/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197598AMD)
3. **04/12/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197597AMD)
4. **06/19/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197596AMD)
5. **08/18/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197595AMD)
6. **09/08/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197593CHP)
7. **AB1975** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975)
8. **08/24/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1975&version=19990AB197594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB1975 Romero By Escutia — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romero — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Aroner — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Knox — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — author (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Solis — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Vincent — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 356, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2000-08-24** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 8229.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-22** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5882.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-18** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-19** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6325.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-08** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-04-13** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-12** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-03-27** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2000-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2000-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50e9c607-f871-44b3-b824-d18dc814f880`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).