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Bill	Clinical laboratories: blood withdrawal.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel and health professionals by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law authorizes an unlicensed person employed by a licensed clinical laboratory to perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing blood or for clinical laboratory test purposes upon specific authorization from a licensed physician and surgeon, if that unlicensed person meets certain requirements. Existing law requires an unlicensed person performing these duties to possess a valid and current certification as a certified phlebotomy technician issued by the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 1120	California AB 1120 (20212022)	bill	Clinical laboratories: blood withdrawal.	enacted	Irwin	7	24	6	2021-02-18	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/b17c7cfd-0e88-40b3-903c-148e9490cfd5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1120	1e5f7b42d5b549d5ac22300400242c16260c6a8926719e28020d5f5834b205cd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1120 (20212022) — Clinical laboratories: blood withdrawal.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory personnel and health professionals by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law authorizes an unlicensed person employed by a licensed clinical laboratory to perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing blood or for clinical laboratory test purposes upon specific authorization from a licensed physician and surgeon, if that unlicensed person meets certain requirements. Existing law requires an unlicensed person performing these duties to possess a valid and current certification as a certified phlebotomy technician issued by the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/03/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/11/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/03/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1120 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1120 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 52–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1120 Irwin By Dodd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1120 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-01-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-01-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (January 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 2. Page 3404.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-04 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5098.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 7.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 685, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b17c7cfd-0e88-40b3-903c-148e9490cfd5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).