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Bill	Dental hygienists: registered dental hygienist in alternative practice: scope of practice.	Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in extended functions, and registered dental hygienists in alternative practice by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law makes certain violations of specific provisions relating to healing arts by a licensee a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 653	California SB 653 (20192020)	bill	Dental hygienists: registered dental hygienist in alternative practice: scope of practice.	enacted	Chang	8	30	7	2019-02-22	2020-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/330ce314-34db-4af1-b13e-4884c15d12d1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB653	89520e4f65821cc0269686fbac09c31426eb97f17a9f376c6c8d41da502bee6b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 653 (20192020) — Dental hygienists: registered dental hygienist in alternative practice: scope of practice.

Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of registered dental hygienists, registered dental hygienists in extended functions, and registered dental hygienists in alternative practice by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law makes certain violations of specific provisions relating to healing arts by a licensee a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/23/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/22/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB653 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/03/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 653 Chang Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chang — primary (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 Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2019-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 770.) (April 22). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2019-05-13 May 13 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-14 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-16 May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
• 2020-01-21 Set for hearing January 23.
• 2020-01-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3141.) (January 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2020-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-01-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3167.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-01-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2020-06-18 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2020-07-27 July 27 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2020-08-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (August 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2020-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5282.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2020-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2020-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 130, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/330ce314-34db-4af1-b13e-4884c15d12d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).