---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care professionals."
description: "(1) Existing law prohibits a physician and surgeon, licensed medical corporation, or any audiologist who is not a licensed hearing aid dispenser from employing a licensed hearing aid dispenser for the purpose of fitting or selling hearing aids."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 1466"
citation: "California SB 1466 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care professionals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-03-25"
last_action: "2014-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aef93222-94eb-4392-9fff-f46ee9c1024f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466"
source_hash: "411a16ff66891bc46f30b28827b955caee8f15180883e4ade4b27200d66164a3"
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 SB 1466 (20132014) — Health care professionals.

(1) Existing law prohibits a physician and surgeon, licensed medical corporation, or any audiologist who is not a licensed hearing aid dispenser from employing a licensed hearing aid dispenser for the purpose of fitting or selling hearing aids.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/25/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146699INT)
2. **06/02/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146698AMD)
3. **07/01/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146697AMD)
4. **08/04/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146696AMD)
5. **08/18/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146695AMD)
6. **09/09/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146693CHP)
7. **SB1466** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466)
8. **08/25/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB1466&version=20130SB146694ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1466 B. P. & E.D. Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — **75–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB1466 Committee on B.P. & E.D. — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1466 Committee on B.P. & E.D. (Lieu) Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-03-25** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2014-03-26** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 25.
- **2014-04-03** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-04** Set for hearing April 28.
- **2014-04-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3279.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2014-05-12** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3467.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (August 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-18** Read third time and amended. (Page 6127.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-18** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 6220.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-20** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2014-08-21** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4689.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 316, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aef93222-94eb-4392-9fff-f46ee9c1024f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).