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Bill	State Board of Optometry: optometrists: nonresident contact lens sellers: registered dispensing opticians.	Existing law prohibits a licensed optometrist and a registered dispensing optician from having any membership, proprietary interest, coownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any profit-sharing arrangement in any form, directly or indirectly, with each other. Existing law prohibits a licensed optometrist from having any membership, proprietary interest, coownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any profit-sharing arrangement in any form, directly or indirectly, either by stock ownership, interlocking directors, trusteeship, mortgage, trust deed, or otherwise with any person who is engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution to physicians and surgeons, optometrists, or dispensing opticians of lenses, frames, optical supplies, optometric appliances or devices or kindred products. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by a licensed optometrist and any other persons, whether or not a healing arts licensee, who participates with a licensed optometrist, subject to a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 684	California AB 684 (20152016)	bill	State Board of Optometry: optometrists: nonresident contact lens sellers: registered dispensing opticians.	enacted	Alejo	10	40	12	2015-02-25	2015-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/91dc9ed1-e51e-4b24-8e06-f2e3c5d6bb7d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB684	dcf038d2951859e631b7a083e52b0f67db06507a8e82554f4767fd9b09d49aa7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 684 (20152016) — State Board of Optometry: optometrists: nonresident contact lens sellers: registered dispensing opticians.

Existing law prohibits a licensed optometrist and a registered dispensing optician from having any membership, proprietary interest, coownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any profit-sharing arrangement in any form, directly or indirectly, with each other. Existing law prohibits a licensed optometrist from having any membership, proprietary interest, coownership, landlord-tenant relationship, or any profit-sharing arrangement in any form, directly or indirectly, either by stock ownership, interlocking directors, trusteeship, mortgage, trust deed, or otherwise with any person who is engaged in the manufacture, sale, or distribution to physicians and surgeons, optometrists, or dispensing opticians of lenses, frames, optical supplies, optometric appliances or devices or kindred products. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions by a licensed optometrist and any other persons, whether or not a healing arts licensee, who participates with a licensed optometrist, subject to a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/25/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/11/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/30/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/01/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB684 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/16/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 684 ALEJO Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB684 Alejo By Hernandez — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 684 ALEJO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alejo — primary (person)
• Bonilla — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-25 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
• 2015-03-09 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-23 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-04-29 From committee: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, committee-passage
• 2015-04-30 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-04 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2015-05-07 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B. & P. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 7). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2015-05-07 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1320.)
• 2015-05-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 7). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-11 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-20 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1594.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-04 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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 7. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-08-24 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-09 Joint Rule 61(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2645.)
• 2015-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2646.)
• 2015-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-09-10 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (September 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-09-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2755.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-11 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3194.)
• 2015-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3204.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 405, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91dc9ed1-e51e-4b24-8e06-f2e3c5d6bb7d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).