---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care practitioners."
description: "Health care practitioners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1777"
citation: "California AB 1777 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care practitioners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Business and Professions"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2003-03-18"
last_action: "2003-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd845b36-977c-441d-98c4-a1778e8cbb40"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777"
source_hash: "fe81b839e6139922db16d187c25e7ea9c78960917a21652b41427fcae392a492"
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 1777 (20032004) — Health care practitioners.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/18/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177799INT)
2. **05/20/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177798AMD)
3. **06/26/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177797AMD)
4. **08/29/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177796AMD)
5. **09/29/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177794CHP)
6. **AB1777** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777)
7. **09/09/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1777&version=20030AB177795ENR)

## Votes

- do pass and re-refer to committee on appropriations with recommendation: to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent cale ab1777 committee on bus.& prof. (correa) by figueroa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 1777 b.& p. consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1777 b.& p. special consent calendar 2nd day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- do pass as amended, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Business and Professions — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-19** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2003-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3677.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2003-09-04** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2350.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-09-02** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-29** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-08-19** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2003-07-10** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-06-05** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-23** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1883.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-30** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-19** From printer. May be heard in committee April 18.
- **2003-03-18** 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/bd845b36-977c-441d-98c4-a1778e8cbb40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).