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Bill	Podiatry.	Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of podiatrists by the California Board of Podiatric Medicine within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. Under existing law, the certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medicine and defines "podiatric medicine" to mean the diagnosis, medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative, and electrical treatment of the human foot, including the ankle and tendons that insert into the foot and the nonsurgical treatment of the muscles and tendons of the leg governing the functions of the foot. Existing law imposes certain limitations on the surgical treatment that a doctor of podiatric medicine may perform, including restricting surgical treatment to specific types of medical facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1153	California AB 1153 (20172018)	bill	Podiatry.	enacted	Low	7	25	3	2017-02-17	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/5c524032-0207-4933-a7e0-2f7e428426e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1153	e283d9952271033470ef99de8acf959e753aca0e79114949ea8183bd2fd40b84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1153 (20172018) — Podiatry.

Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of podiatrists by the California Board of Podiatric Medicine within the jurisdiction of the Medical Board of California. Under existing law, the certificate to practice podiatric medicine authorizes the holder to practice podiatric medicine and defines "podiatric medicine" to mean the diagnosis, medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative, and electrical treatment of the human foot, including the ankle and tendons that insert into the foot and the nonsurgical treatment of the muscles and tendons of the leg governing the functions of the foot. Existing law imposes certain limitations on the surgical treatment that a doctor of podiatric medicine may perform, including restricting surgical treatment to specific types of medical facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1153 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1153 LOW Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1153 Low By Wilk — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-27 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 From Consent Calendar by request of Assembly Member Low. To Third Reading. reading-1
• 2017-05-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1643.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1709.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2711.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-12 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3206.)
• 2017-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3212.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 793, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5c524032-0207-4933-a7e0-2f7e428426e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).