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Bill	Professions and vocations: licensing boards.	(1) The Professional Engineers Act provides for the licensure and regulation of engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The act requires the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals the board and the executive officer position on January 1, 2016.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 177	California AB 177 (20152016)	bill appropriation	Professions and vocations: licensing boards.	enacted	Bonilla	9	27	8	2015-01-26	2015-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b1517d04-8035-4b5b-b3ed-5940a34c426c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB177	fd66693600af908cd2512068bceae4916c1aca9e0b2d5c8f4e5c5d788e005778	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 177 (20152016) — Professions and vocations: licensing boards.

(1) The Professional Engineers Act provides for the licensure and regulation of engineers by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists. The act requires the board to appoint an executive officer. Existing law repeals the board and the executive officer position on January 1, 2016.

Version chain

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

1. 01/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/02/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB177 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 177 BONILLA Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB177 Bonilla By Hill — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 177 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bonilla — primary (person)
• Hill — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-01-27 From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
• 2015-02-02 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-03-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-03-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1700.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2641.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3052.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 428, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1517d04-8035-4b5b-b3ed-5940a34c426c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).