---
type: "Bill"
title: "Optometrists: dangerous drugs and devices."
description: "Optometrists: dangerous drugs and devices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 186"
citation: "California AB 186 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Optometrists: dangerous drugs and devices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Correa"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2003-01-27"
last_action: "2003-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e1c0890-bac7-4df8-933e-d1f24488d119"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186"
source_hash: "14fba35d238e15b00339f2c959bc3e08e154eeec3898da3db6d503be6f6daa61"
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 186 (20032004) — Optometrists: dangerous drugs and devices.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/27/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186&version=20030AB18699INT)
2. **07/01/03 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186&version=20030AB18698AMD)
3. **09/22/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186&version=20030AB18696CHP)
4. **AB186** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186)
5. **08/28/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB186&version=20030AB18697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab186 correa by aanestad — **pass** (pass) · upper
- ab 186 correa concurrence in senate amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 186 correa assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Correa — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 426, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-09-04** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2003-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 71. Noes 2. Page 3211.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2003-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2003-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2124.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-07-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-07-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-07-10** Joint Rule 61(a)(9) suspended. (Page 1731.)
- **2003-07-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-07-01** 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`
- **2003-05-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-04-07** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 7. Page 945.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-04-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-04-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2003-03-20** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2003-01-28** From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
- **2003-01-27** 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/2e1c0890-bac7-4df8-933e-d1f24488d119`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).