---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: physician assistants and nurse practitioners."
description: "Workers' compensation: physician assistants and nurse practitioners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1194"
citation: "California AB 1194 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: physician assistants and nurse practitioners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-09-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53dd7383-a19a-45a7-bc7d-531f6857986a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194"
source_hash: "74fa1710bf93fdd59209565c72cdc9132be139dcac47807d0eb47340fdb8d0f9"
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 1194 (20012002) — Workers' compensation: physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119499INT)
2. **04/17/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119498AMD)
3. **05/14/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119497AMD)
4. **07/16/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119496AMD)
5. **09/04/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119494CHP)
6. **AB1194** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194)
7. **08/20/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1194&version=20010AB119495ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1194 Correa By Peace — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1194 Correa Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1194 Correa Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-09-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 229, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-08-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2001-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 67. Noes 4. Page 3062.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-07-19** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 2120.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-07-16** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2001-07-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-06-28** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-05-31** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1667.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-05-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 9). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2001-02-23** 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/53dd7383-a19a-45a7-bc7d-531f6857986a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).