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Bill	Nursing.	Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law authorizes a nurse practitioner and a certified nurse-midwife to furnish or order drugs or devices under specified circumstances subject to physician and surgeon supervision, including, among other instances, when a nurse practitioner or certified nurse-midwife has completed specified supervised experience of at least 6 months' duration and a course in pharmacology.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1524	California SB 1524 (20112012)	bill	Nursing.	enacted	Hernandez	7	26	6	2012-02-24	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c8548bea-bf5c-4334-99a6-bbd4059f9169	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1524	6e8623081ea9a604284241b43f20363afa3febf4156ff418fb76c5e323b2d692	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1524 (20112012) — Nursing.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law authorizes a nurse practitioner and a certified nurse-midwife to furnish or order drugs or devices under specified circumstances subject to physician and surgeon supervision, including, among other instances, when a nurse practitioner or certified nurse-midwife has completed specified supervised experience of at least 6 months' duration and a course in pharmacology.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1524 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/23/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB1524 Hernandez Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 1524 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By HILL — 71–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 26.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-03-30 Set for hearing April 16.
• 2012-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3189.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-20 Set for hearing April 30.
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 3401.) 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
• 2012-06-06 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, 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
• 2012-06-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 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. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 5. Page 6029.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-21 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4681.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-28 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 796, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c8548bea-bf5c-4334-99a6-bbd4059f9169. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).