---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a health care practitioner, as defined, to communicate to a patient his or her name, state-granted practitioner license type, and highest level of academic degree, in a specified manner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 512"
citation: "California SB 512 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cdf5ba3c-e119-47e0-9fae-0772927b34c3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512"
source_hash: "aa418b16822e35475bc3ec41d0133afa4d3b7ffbff13ba589c680e6663c31a6a"
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 512 (20172018) — Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a health care practitioner, as defined, to communicate to a patient his or her name, state-granted practitioner license type, and highest level of academic degree, in a specified manner.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51299INT)
2. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51298AMD)
3. **06/12/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51297AMD)
4. **06/22/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51296AMD)
5. **07/17/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51295AMD)
6. **08/21/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51294AMD)
7. **10/02/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51292CHP)
8. **SB512** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512)
9. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512&version=20170SB51293ENR)

## Votes

- SB 512 Hernandez Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB512 Hernandez et al. — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB512 Hernandez et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hernandez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-01** Set for hearing May 3.
- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 974.) (May 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 990.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-12** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-06-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-07-13** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-23** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2854.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-01** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-09-05** Set for hearing September 6.
- **2017-09-06** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 2539.) `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-09-14** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2903.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 428, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cdf5ba3c-e119-47e0-9fae-0772927b34c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).