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Bill	Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a health care practitioner, as defined, to communicate to a patient his or her name, state-granted practitioner license type, and highest level of academic degree, in a specified manner.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 512	California SB 512 (20172018)	bill	Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy.	enacted	Hernandez	9	30	8	2017-02-16	2017-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/cdf5ba3c-e119-47e0-9fae-0772927b34c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB512	aa418b16822e35475bc3ec41d0133afa4d3b7ffbff13ba589c680e6663c31a6a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 512 (20172018) — Health care practitioners: stem cell therapy.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various health care practitioners by boards and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires a health care practitioner, as defined, to communicate to a patient his or her name, state-granted practitioner license type, and highest level of academic degree, in a specified manner.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/12/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/22/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/02/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB512 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 512 Hernandez Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB512 Hernandez et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB512 Hernandez et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 974.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 990.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-12 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
• 2017-06-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 20). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2854.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-01 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-09-05 Set for hearing September 6.
• 2017-09-06 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 2539.) committee-passage
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2903.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 428, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cdf5ba3c-e119-47e0-9fae-0772927b34c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).