republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2143.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinical laboratories: chiropractors."
description: "Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates clinical laboratories and certain clinical laboratory personnel performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations, subject to certain exceptions, including individuals who perform clinical laboratory tests or examinations approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for sale as an over-the-counter test kit. Under the Chiropractic Act, enacted by an initiative measure, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners licenses and regulates chiropractors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 2143"
citation: "California AB 2143 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clinical laboratories: chiropractors."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Williams"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-20"
last_action: "2014-08-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f118b235-227e-4e27-bfac-3276830ef92f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143"
source_hash: "55462ab03847b9ee3eaf31694bac7919a86d5421d77a8a35c07f0657ed67d49d"
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 2143 (20132014) — Clinical laboratories: chiropractors.

Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses and regulates clinical laboratories and certain clinical laboratory personnel performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations, subject to certain exceptions, including individuals who perform clinical laboratory tests or examinations approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for sale as an over-the-counter test kit. Under the Chiropractic Act, enacted by an initiative measure, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners licenses and regulates chiropractors.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143&version=20130AB214399INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143&version=20130AB214398AMD)
3. **05/27/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143&version=20130AB214397AMD)
4. **08/22/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143&version=20130AB214395CHP)
5. **AB2143** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143)
6. **08/08/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2143&version=20130AB214396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection to Consent Calendar. — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2143 WILLIAMS Third Reading Urgency — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2014-03-28** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-23** From consent calendar.
- **2014-05-23** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-05-27** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5163.) `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-29** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5337.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-06-11** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4377.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-07** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2014-08-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-08-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 269, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f118b235-227e-4e27-bfac-3276830ef92f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).