republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-171.md

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Bill	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.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 171	California AB 171 (20092010)	bill	Dental services: credit.	enacted	Jones	7	23	8	2009-01-29	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a4b6e3a4-7d2b-46a0-902e-b66372edd2b8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB171	a5c53d5764eed9a7f3e027cf55c8c7ad9c7fed91a0d1dbf8474649d96792bc02	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. 05/28/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB171 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/a4b6e3a4-7d2b-46a0-902e-b66372edd2b8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).