---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: physician assistant: nurse practitioner."
description: "Workers' compensation: physician assistant: nurse practitioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 2919"
citation: "California AB 2919 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: physician assistant: nurse practitioner."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ridley-Thomas"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2004-02-20"
last_action: "2004-07-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90ae5643-1724-4a41-bef8-dd6fbfa173cd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919"
source_hash: "f81d204859ba940f3771e4ac1f30fbd13492c2dffdcf1c81a0eb27c15e3ddad0"
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 2919 (20032004) — Workers' compensation: physician assistant: nurse practitioner.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919&version=20030AB291999INT)
2. **03/23/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919&version=20030AB291998AMD)
3. **07/06/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919&version=20030AB291996CHP)
4. **AB2919** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919)
5. **06/21/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB2919&version=20030AB291997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- special consent cale ab2919 ridley-thoma — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass, to consent calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 2919 ridley-thomas consent calendar second day regular session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- be referred to committee on insurance. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ridley-Thomas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2004-07-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 100, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-07-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-06-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2004-06-21** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2004-06-21** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 4260.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-06-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-06-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-05-27** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5765.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-10** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-05-06** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-04-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2004-03-30** From committee: Be re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 30). `referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules by unanimous consent. `referral-committee`
- **2004-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. `referral-committee, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-03-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection and Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2004-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2004-02-20** 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/90ae5643-1724-4a41-bef8-dd6fbfa173cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).