republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1215.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinical laboratories."
description: "Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the performance of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) unless the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director. Existing law defines \"laboratory director,\" for purposes of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived, as an individual who, among others, is a duly licensed naturopathic doctor. Existing law defines \"laboratory scientist\" and authorizes a person licensed as a clinical laboratory scientist and qualified under CLIA to perform the duties and responsibilities of a technical consultant, clinical consultant, technical supervisor, and general supervisor, as specified under CLIA, in certain specialties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1215"
citation: "California AB 1215 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clinical laboratories."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hagman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99fc0bd5-ae88-4c0a-87b3-d30e38a9f4b6"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215"
source_hash: "082e05ce952e4e84b3eb84e12a869b95ce545bc9d8b63aead60b0eb69c69f1ea"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1215 (20132014) — Clinical laboratories.

Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the performance of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) unless the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director. Existing law defines "laboratory director," for purposes of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived, as an individual who, among others, is a duly licensed naturopathic doctor. Existing law defines "laboratory scientist" and authorizes a person licensed as a clinical laboratory scientist and qualified under CLIA to perform the duties and responsibilities of a technical consultant, clinical consultant, technical supervisor, and general supervisor, as specified under CLIA, in certain specialties.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215&version=20130AB121599INT)
2. **04/09/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215&version=20130AB121598AMD)
3. **08/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215&version=20130AB121596CHP)
4. **AB1215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215)
5. **08/20/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1215&version=20130AB121597ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1215 HAGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Health. — **10–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hagman — primary (person)
- Holden — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-07** Referred to Coms. on B.,P. & C.P. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-16** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** From consent calendar.
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1264.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-15** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-08** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1844.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2013-08-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 199, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/99fc0bd5-ae88-4c0a-87b3-d30e38a9f4b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).