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Bill	Optometry.	Existing law, the Optometry Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of optometry by the State Board of Optometry. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a healing arts board to issue, upon specified application and payment, an inactive license to a current holder of an active license whose license is not suspended, revoked, or otherwise restricted. Existing law prohibits the holder of an inactive license from engaging in any activity requiring a license.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1215	California SB 1215 (20112012)	bill appropriation	Optometry.	enacted	Emmerson	6	25	7	2012-02-22	2012-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/56264942-e733-4b9a-ba66-473debd3847a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1215	8df3877c0c54eee575de57949cbb7e031c8566938bea44403ca5d013b1f214f3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1215 (20112012) — Optometry.

Existing law, the Optometry Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of optometry by the State Board of Optometry. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires a healing arts board to issue, upon specified application and payment, an inactive license to a current holder of an active license whose license is not suspended, revoked, or otherwise restricted. Existing law prohibits the holder of an inactive license from engaging in any activity requiring a license.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/20/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/17/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1215 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1215 Emmerson Senate Third Reading By HAYASHI — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1215 Emmerson Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Emmerson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-03-21 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3086.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2012-05-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3388.) (April 30). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3402.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-03 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-05-10 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-09 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 From consent calendar.
• 2012-08-16 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-20 Read third time and amended. (Page 6028.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6445.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4972.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 359, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56264942-e733-4b9a-ba66-473debd3847a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).