republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-658.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clinical laboratories."
description: "Existing federal law, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) , requires the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to certify and regulate clinical laboratories that perform testing on humans. Existing law also provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, the department inspects clinical laboratories and assesses a fee for licensure of those facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 658"
citation: "California AB 658 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Clinical laboratories."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waldron"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2017-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98556df6-cc0c-4258-b9d0-2b3c337efc26"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658"
source_hash: "9a1803cc3a5b6a46c2899d47f3aa243ae659511c3e6a2605c929f27ffc70c35a"
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 658 (20172018) — Clinical laboratories.

Existing federal law, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) , requires the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to certify and regulate clinical laboratories that perform testing on humans. Existing law also provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, the department inspects clinical laboratories and assesses a fee for licensure of those facilities.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658&version=20170AB65899INT)
2. **04/06/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658&version=20170AB65898AMD)
3. **09/28/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658&version=20170AB65896CHP)
4. **AB658** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658)
5. **09/13/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB658&version=20170AB65897ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 658 WALDRON Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB658 Waldron By Hernandez — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Waldron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-04-17** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1146.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-10** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-26** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2698.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2017-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2017-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98556df6-cc0c-4258-b9d0-2b3c337efc26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).