---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professions and vocations: licenses: military service."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a licensee or registrant who permitted his or her license to expire while serving in any branch of the armed services of the United States during a period of war, as defined, to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are satisfied."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2500"
citation: "California AB 2500 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and vocations: licenses: military service."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hagman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2010-02-19"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30854292-b309-404a-b99e-f8df9e0d3d1f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500"
source_hash: "dbd26044fa235c7ae5d783c1594874eb7d871460fefb9644074d06f67c3ef7f7"
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 2500 (20092010) — Professions and vocations: licenses: military service.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes a licensee or registrant who permitted his or her license to expire while serving in any branch of the armed services of the United States during a period of war, as defined, to, upon application, reinstate his or her license without examination or penalty if certain requirements are satisfied.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250099INT)
2. **04/26/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250098AMD)
3. **05/20/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250097AMD)
4. **06/22/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250096AMD)
5. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250094CHP)
6. **AB2500** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500)
7. **08/19/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2500&version=20090AB250095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #30 AB2500 Hagman — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2500 HAGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2500 HAGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hagman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2010-04-08** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-04** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 5342.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-10** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-22** 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`
- **2010-06-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-03** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-04** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2010-08-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4410.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6213.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 389, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30854292-b309-404a-b99e-f8df9e0d3d1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).