republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/sb-352.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical assistants: supervision."
description: "Existing law authorizes a medical assistant to perform specified services relating to the administration of medication and performance of skin tests and simple routine medical tasks and procedures upon specific authorization from and under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon or podiatrist, or in a specified clinic upon specific authorization of a physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or nurse-midwife. Existing law requires the Board of Registered Nursing to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a qualifying applicant who is licensed pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 352"
citation: "California SB 352 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Medical assistants: supervision."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pavley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-09-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00a07b87-4c84-4ebd-901b-c10f90955c52"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352"
source_hash: "7f22810560bc9ed62421566dbda7f5193a4a982c9cc21b5acad134d70d9e71e3"
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 SB 352 (20132014) — Medical assistants: supervision.

Existing law authorizes a medical assistant to perform specified services relating to the administration of medication and performance of skin tests and simple routine medical tasks and procedures upon specific authorization from and under the supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon or podiatrist, or in a specified clinic upon specific authorization of a physician assistant, nurse practitioner, or nurse-midwife. Existing law requires the Board of Registered Nursing to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a qualifying applicant who is licensed pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352&version=20130SB35299INT)
2. **04/10/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352&version=20130SB35298AMD)
3. **06/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352&version=20130SB35297AMD)
4. **09/09/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352&version=20130SB35295CHP)
5. **SB352** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352)
6. **08/23/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB352&version=20130SB35296ENR)

## Votes

- SB 352 Pavley Senate Third Reading By GORDON — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **36–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB352 Pavley Concurrence — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pavley — primary (person)
- Hernandez — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2013-02-28** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-21** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2013-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1. Page 464.) (April 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2013-04-11** Ordered to second reading.
- **2013-04-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 2. Page 606.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-08** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2477.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-08-22** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 1946.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-09-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 286, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00a07b87-4c84-4ebd-901b-c10f90955c52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).