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Bill	Respiratory care practitioners.	(1) Under the Respiratory Care Practice Act, the Respiratory Care Board of California licenses and regulates the practice of respiratory care and therapy. The act requires an applicant to successfully pass the national respiratory therapist examination conducted in accordance with board regulations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1972	California AB 1972 (20132014)	bill	Respiratory care practitioners.	enacted	Jones	5	20	5	2014-02-19	2014-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/00199ce0-f031-48c9-9e2f-4ccb715791ff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1972	2a4af83b3c74c4d217281da4fbbfee2d23195de7a8db9723a16d271723885f46	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1972 (20132014) — Respiratory care practitioners.

(1) Under the Respiratory Care Practice Act, the Respiratory Care Board of California licenses and regulates the practice of respiratory care and therapy. The act requires an applicant to successfully pass the national respiratory therapist examination conducted in accordance with board regulations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/23/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB1972 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/10/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1972 JONES Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 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
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4848.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2014-06-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4253.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-07-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2014-07-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-07-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 179, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00199ce0-f031-48c9-9e2f-4ccb715791ff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).