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Bill	Medical Board of California: adjudication: expert testimony.	Existing law prohibits the use of expert testimony in matters brought by the Medical Board of California unless specified information is exchanged with counsel for the other party, and requires the exchange of the information to be completed 30 calendar days prior to the commencement date of the hearing or as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 505	California AB 505 (20172018)	bill	Medical Board of California: adjudication: expert testimony.	enacted	Caballero	7	26	6	2017-02-13	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/0fa2056e-7602-4695-89b0-96382677cd04	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB505	c37c0e731a229b8962b1de82b4391a5df558d7a72e62d20155d6d84fa4e1433b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 505 (20172018) — Medical Board of California: adjudication: expert testimony.

Existing law prohibits the use of expert testimony in matters brought by the Medical Board of California unless specified information is exchanged with counsel for the other party, and requires the exchange of the information to be completed 30 calendar days prior to the commencement date of the hearing or as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB505 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 505 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 505 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB505 Caballero By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 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
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1894.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2017-07-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-20 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-01 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5439.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2018-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6875.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 469, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0fa2056e-7602-4695-89b0-96382677cd04. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).