republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-178.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California: executive officer."
description: "Existing law, the Vocational Nursing Practice Act and the Psychiatric Technicians Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California and requires the board to, among other things, appoint an executive officer, who is a licensed vocational nurse, registered nurse, or psychiatric technician. Existing law repeals that requirement on January 1, 2016."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 178"
citation: "California AB 178 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California: executive officer."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonilla"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-01-26"
last_action: "2015-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bda74483-676d-450f-9ff3-94a2ba8a72e7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178"
source_hash: "efdcdab1df18c601ec0192f44a76e7a75796cb9eec6f6501671290dd8bf92aac"
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 178 (20152016) — Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California: executive officer.

Existing law, the Vocational Nursing Practice Act and the Psychiatric Technicians Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses and psychiatric technicians by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California and requires the board to, among other things, appoint an executive officer, who is a licensed vocational nurse, registered nurse, or psychiatric technician. Existing law repeals that requirement 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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17899INT)
2. **03/03/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17898AMD)
3. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17897AMD)
4. **05/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17896AMD)
5. **06/24/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17895AMD)
6. **08/31/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17894AMD)
7. **10/02/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17892CHP)
8. **AB178** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178)
9. **09/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB178&version=20150AB17893ENR)

## Votes

- AB 178 BONILLA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB178 Bonilla By Hill Urgency Clause — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 178 BONILLA Third Reading Urgency — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **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`
- **2015-04-22** 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`
- **2015-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** 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. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1701.). `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`
- **2015-06-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-06-24** 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`
- **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-13** In committee: Referred to 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`
- **2015-09-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2402.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-02** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-03** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
- **2015-09-03** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2865.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-16** 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 429, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bda74483-676d-450f-9ff3-94a2ba8a72e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).