republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-1495.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health."
description: "(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires licensed health care practitioners who perform stem cell therapies that are not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to communicate to their patients specified information regarding the therapies in a notice and in writing prior to providing the initial stem cell therapy. Under existing law, for these purposes, a \"stem cell therapy\" is a therapy involving the use of HCT/Ps, defined as human cells, tissues, or cellular- or tissue-based products in accordance with specified federal law. Under existing law, these requirements do not apply to a health care practitioner who has obtained approval for an investigational new drug or device from the FDA for the use of HCT/Ps."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1495"
citation: "California SB 1495 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/81699bfb-598c-42fe-84b3-a39d9a4c6545"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495"
source_hash: "b637139b4a63c118642f68fd6688d6911ed980c88f952f28fd8678431552b476"
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 SB 1495 (20172018) — Health.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires licensed health care practitioners who perform stem cell therapies that are not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to communicate to their patients specified information regarding the therapies in a notice and in writing prior to providing the initial stem cell therapy. Under existing law, for these purposes, a "stem cell therapy" is a therapy involving the use of HCT/Ps, defined as human cells, tissues, or cellular- or tissue-based products in accordance with specified federal law. Under existing law, these requirements do not apply to a health care practitioner who has obtained approval for an investigational new drug or device from the FDA for the use of HCT/Ps.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/28/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495&version=20170SB149599INT)
2. **04/10/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495&version=20170SB149598AMD)
3. **06/14/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495&version=20170SB149597AMD)
4. **09/14/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495&version=20170SB149595CHP)
5. **SB1495** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495)
6. **08/28/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1495&version=20170SB149596ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1495 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1495 HEALTH (Pan) Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar SB1495 HEALTH — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 31.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-06** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2018-04-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4853.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** Set for hearing May 14.
- **2018-05-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5091.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-25** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-15** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6518.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-27** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5800.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2018-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 424, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/81699bfb-598c-42fe-84b3-a39d9a4c6545`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).