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Bill	Continuing education: veterinarians.	Existing law creates a Veterinary Medical Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs whose highest priority is to protect the public in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Existing law requires applications for a veterinarian license to be furnished on a form and accompanied by a diploma or other verification of graduation from a veterinary college recognized by the board. Existing law requires each veterinarian licensed by the board to biennially apply for renewal of his or her license. Existing law requires the board to issue renewal licenses to those applicants that have completed a minimum of 36 hours of continuing education in the preceding 2 years, including no more than 6 hours of self-study courses.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2300	California AB 2300 (20172018)	bill	Continuing education: veterinarians.	enacted	Maienschein	6	21	6	2018-02-13	2018-08-28	openstates	ocd-bill/01752c24-5536-4b1b-b114-e13361b7e827	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2300	10b675e5d26b74c987c994b5ec151e5ddb3228d669c86dd0782df0968d130e09	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2300 (20172018) — Continuing education: veterinarians.

Existing law creates a Veterinary Medical Board in the Department of Consumer Affairs whose highest priority is to protect the public in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Existing law requires applications for a veterinarian license to be furnished on a form and accompanied by a diploma or other verification of graduation from a veterinary college recognized by the board. Existing law requires each veterinarian licensed by the board to biennially apply for renewal of his or her license. Existing law requires the board to issue renewal licenses to those applicants that have completed a minimum of 36 hours of continuing education in the preceding 2 years, including no more than 6 hours of self-study courses.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2300 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2300 Maienschein et al. By Hill — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2300 MAIENSCHEIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2300 MAIENSCHEIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-02 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 4790.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-03 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5235.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6245.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-08-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 236, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/01752c24-5536-4b1b-b114-e13361b7e827. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).