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Bill	Healing arts: referrals.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, it is unlawful for licensed healing arts practitioners, except as specified, to offer, deliver, receive, or accept any rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount, or other consideration, in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person. Existing law makes a violation of this provision a public offense punishable upon a first conviction by imprisonment, as specified, or a fine not exceeding $50,000, or by imprisonment and that fine.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2744	California AB 2744 (20152016)	bill	Healing arts: referrals.	enacted	Gordon	8	27	6	2016-02-19	2016-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/f438ae47-ace9-4d4d-9370-de824f1c046a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2744	bc55187443c268385c2b1147d65c4f92606759db75016c097d33c3f835bc7acb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2744 (20152016) — Healing arts: referrals.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, it is unlawful for licensed healing arts practitioners, except as specified, to offer, deliver, receive, or accept any rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount, or other consideration, in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person. Existing law makes a violation of this provision a public offense punishable upon a first conviction by imprisonment, as specified, or a fine not exceeding $50,000, or by imprisonment and that fine.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/06/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/08/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2744 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2744 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2744 Gordon By Hill — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2744 GORDON Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-10 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-11 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
• 2016-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4789.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2016-05-31 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-06-06 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
• 2016-06-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5022.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6120.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 360, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f438ae47-ace9-4d4d-9370-de824f1c046a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).