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Bill	Medical telemedicine: optometrists.	Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, regulates the practice of telemedicine, defined as the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and education using interactive audio, video, or data communications.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 175	California AB 175 (20092010)	bill	Medical telemedicine: optometrists.	enacted	Galgiani	6	29	10	2009-01-29	2009-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/8382d794-8d0b-4104-9b9c-9a0d66bf7744	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB175	a3ad2f0e26bea77814f15af407d9768673438f65496ba52c8038bf4b7de4f4b2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 175 (20092010) — Medical telemedicine: optometrists.

Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, regulates the practice of telemedicine, defined as the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data, and education using interactive audio, video, or data communications.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/09 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/09 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/24/09 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/11/09 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB175 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/09 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 175 GALGIANI Assembly Third Reading — pass (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #19 AB175 Galgiani — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business and Professions. — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — pass (pass) · upper
• AB 175 GALGIANI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• 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

Sponsors

• Galgiani — primary (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Florez — principal coauthor (person)
• Fuller — coauthor (person)
• Maldonado — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Tom Berryhill — coauthor (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 HEALTH and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-03-18 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (March 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-04-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-04-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2009-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2009-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2009-04-29 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 13). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-05-18 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1620.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-05-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2009-06-04 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2009-06-23 From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2009-06-24 Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-06-29 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-17 In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
• 2009-08-31 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2009-08-31 (received by desk August 28, 2009 pursuant to JR61(a)(11))
• 2009-09-01 Read second time. To third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2009-09-02 Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
• 2009-09-04 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2223.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2009-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2009-09-09 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3152.)
• 2009-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3174.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2009-09-28 Enrolled and to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2009-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2009-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 419, Statutes of 2009.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8382d794-8d0b-4104-9b9c-9a0d66bf7744. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).