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Bill	Safe Body Art Act.	Under existing law, every person engaged in the business of tattooing, body piercing, or permanent cosmetics is required to register with the county in which that business is conducted, obtain a copy of the county's sterilization, sanitation, and safety standards, as established by the California Conference of Local Health Officers and distributed by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, and pay a one-time registration fee of $25. Existing law allows the county to charge an additional fee, if necessary to cover the cost of registration and inspection, and allows a county to adopt regulations that do not conflict with, or are more comprehensive than, standards adopted by the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 300	California AB 300 (20112012)	bill	Safe Body Art Act.	enacted	Ma	8	25	7	2011-02-09	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/692461d4-97e6-44b4-a1dc-ddb4b08e1390	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB300	2979df0e057f66b2b24b3c2d17e398ea30dc9f1178a307e7a4bdaba38af76e38	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 300 (20112012) — Safe Body Art Act.

Under existing law, every person engaged in the business of tattooing, body piercing, or permanent cosmetics is required to register with the county in which that business is conducted, obtain a copy of the county's sterilization, sanitation, and safety standards, as established by the California Conference of Local Health Officers and distributed by the State Department of Public Health, as specified, and pay a one-time registration fee of $25. Existing law allows the county to charge an additional fee, if necessary to cover the cost of registration and inspection, and allows a county to adopt regulations that do not conflict with, or are more comprehensive than, standards adopted by the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB300 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Public Safety. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB300 Ma By Alquist — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 300 MA Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 300 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)
• Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-03-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-03-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 909.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-04-25 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2011-06-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2137.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 3. Page 2831.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 638, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/692461d4-97e6-44b4-a1dc-ddb4b08e1390. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).