---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dental services: credit."
description: "Existing law prohibits a healing arts licensee, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners, from referring a person for certain health care services if the licensee has a financial interest, as defined, with the person or entity that receives the referral. Existing law provides specified exemptions from this prohibition. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing referrals is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 171"
citation: "California AB 171 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dental services: credit."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jones"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2009-01-29"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4b6e3a4-7d2b-46a0-902e-b66372edd2b8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171"
source_hash: "a5c53d5764eed9a7f3e027cf55c8c7ad9c7fed91a0d1dbf8474649d96792bc02"
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 171 (20092010) — Dental services: credit.

Existing law prohibits a healing arts licensee, including physicians and surgeons, psychologists, acupuncturists, optometrists, dentists, podiatrists, and chiropractic practitioners, from referring a person for certain health care services if the licensee has a financial interest, as defined, with the person or entity that receives the referral. Existing law provides specified exemptions from this prohibition. Under existing law, a violation of the provisions governing referrals is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17199INT)
2. **05/28/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17198AMD)
3. **06/30/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17197AMD)
4. **07/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17196AMD)
5. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17194CHP)
6. **AB171** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171)
7. **09/02/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171&version=20090AB17195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 171 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB171 Jones By Aanestad — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 171 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 31). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1364.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-06-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-06-29** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-30** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-14** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-15** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1973.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2798.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-04** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 418, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4b6e3a4-7d2b-46a0-902e-b66372edd2b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).