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Bill	Nurse practitioners: scope of practice: practice without standardized procedures.	Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the certification and regulation of nurse practitioners by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law authorizes the implementation of standardized procedures that authorize a nurse practitioner to perform certain acts that are in addition to other authorized practices, including certifying disability after performing a physical examination and collaboration with a physician and surgeon. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 890	California AB 890 (20192020)	bill	Nurse practitioners: scope of practice: practice without standardized procedures.	enacted	Wood	13	38	8	2019-02-20	2020-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/c627350a-4f7c-4dd3-b630-347e5e42d385	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB890	b257885cb8f35cd2fb624ae2bffc0917cc3b875aee7b9bc8f55d53182f436870	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 890 (20192020) — Nurse practitioners: scope of practice: practice without standardized procedures.

Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, provides for the certification and regulation of nurse practitioners by the Board of Registered Nursing. Existing law authorizes the implementation of standardized procedures that authorize a nurse practitioner to perform certain acts that are in addition to other authorized practices, including certifying disability after performing a physical examination and collaboration with a physician and surgeon. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/20 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/23/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/20/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/28/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/29/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB890 (committee substitute) — source
13. 09/04/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB890 Wood et al. By Glazer — 27–3 (pass) · upper
• AB 890 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 890 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 61–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Berman — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Hill — coauthor (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Moorlach — coauthor (person)
• Quirk — coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wicks — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-04 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1609.)
• 2019-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1760.)
• 2019-05-16 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3893.)
• 2020-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 1. Page 3900.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2020-06-23 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2020-07-23 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-06 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (August 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2020-08-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-25 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 3.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 5466.)
• 2020-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 1. Page 5469.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2020-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 265, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c627350a-4f7c-4dd3-b630-347e5e42d385. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).