republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2423.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physical therapists: direct access to services: plan of care approval."
description: "The Physical Therapy Practice Act creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. The act makes it a crime to violate any of its provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2423"
citation: "California AB 2423 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Physical therapists: direct access to services: plan of care approval."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holden"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8364bff5-ead1-4056-8242-da07ed084d56"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423"
source_hash: "7539a18e8065fac36f107babd80f4e1e7b75abec6198661cca4a6a215bf5693a"
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 2423 (20172018) — Physical therapists: direct access to services: plan of care approval.

The Physical Therapy Practice Act creates the Physical Therapy Board of California and makes it responsible for the licensure and regulation of physical therapists. The act makes it a crime to violate any of its provisions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242399INT)
2. **04/09/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242398AMD)
3. **06/28/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242397AMD)
4. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242396AMD)
5. **09/26/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242394CHP)
6. **AB2423** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423)
7. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2423&version=20170AB242395ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2423 HOLDEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2423 Holden By Wieckowski — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2423 HOLDEN Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holden — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-09** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-25** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-30** From Consent Calendar.
- **2018-04-30** Ordered to third reading.
- **2018-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5584.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-13** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5990.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 7030.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 761, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8364bff5-ead1-4056-8242-da07ed084d56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).