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type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services: training."
description: "Under existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, the Emergency Medical Services Authority is responsible for establishing minimum standards and promulgating regulations for the training and scope of practice for an Emergency Medical Technician-I (EMT-I) , Emergency Medical Technician-II (EMT-II) , and Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) ."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 453"
citation: "California AB 453 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency medical services: training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chau"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bce7b49c-eeaa-4adb-873d-be96a068e58f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453"
source_hash: "87c3f9ee8b58d245fb860168c112d3e95559d444b3c28534bc7747b918ce863c"
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 453 (20192020) — Emergency medical services: training.
Under existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, the Emergency Medical Services Authority is responsible for establishing minimum standards and promulgating regulations for the training and scope of practice for an Emergency Medical Technician-I (EMT-I) , Emergency Medical Technician-II (EMT-II) , and Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) .
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/11/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453&version=20190AB45399INT)
2. **04/04/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453&version=20190AB45398AMD)
3. **07/12/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453&version=20190AB45396CHP)
4. **AB453** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453)
5. **07/03/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB453&version=20190AB45397ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **150** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB453 — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · upper
- AB 453 Chau Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chau — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2019-02-21** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2019-04-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-04-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1474.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-06** 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`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1876.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-01** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-07-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bce7b49c-eeaa-4adb-873d-be96a068e58f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).