---
type: "Bill"
title: "Psychiatric technicians."
description: "Psychiatric technicians."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2648"
citation: "California AB 2648 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Psychiatric technicians."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Calderon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d53764a-51fa-4bdc-8f5f-3698a09179c3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2648"
source_hash: "8aae6a66cd63968f8bf829ecc1bab95986eb65a039b0c2f1aed80bbccdcd5561"
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 2648 (19992000) — Psychiatric technicians.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2648&version=19990AB264899INT)
2. **07/24/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2648&version=19990AB264897CHP)
3. **AB2648** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2648)
4. **07/06/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2648&version=19990AB264898ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2648 CALDERON THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2648 Calderon By O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 208, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-07-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-07-11** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2000-07-06** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2000-07-06** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 6. Page 5495.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-06-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-18** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 3. Page 6436.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-11** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2000-02-25** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d53764a-51fa-4bdc-8f5f-3698a09179c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).