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California SB 601 (20192020) — State agencies: licenses: fee waiver.

Existing law requires various licenses to be obtained by a person before engaging in certain professions or vocations or business activities, including licensure as a healing arts professional by various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/27/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB601 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB601 Morrell et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB601 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 601 Morrell Consent Calendar Second Day — 67–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Morrell — primary (person)
• Bates — coauthor (person)
• Borgeas — coauthor (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2019-03-22 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2019-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B., P. & E.D. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0. Page 620.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 769.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1059.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-03 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and G.O. referral-committee
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on G.O. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-11 (Received at desk July 10 pursuant to JR 61(a)(10)).
• 2019-08-21 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2910.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-04 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-04 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2529.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 854, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a147ca41-3e88-40c8-9695-d7ef7e1ef8e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).