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Bill	Substance use disorder: counselors.	Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions. Existing law also requires the department to require that an individual providing counseling services within a program be certified by a certifying organization approved by the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2473	California AB 2473 (20212022)	bill	Substance use disorder: counselors.	enacted	Nazarian	9	33	6	2022-02-17	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7f6b60fb-2c8b-4cf2-a8ca-ec17ac6001e7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2473	bf70bb60c216598847ff1b3de9729dd7eb079352682a9aad7a084d6974b200c8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2473 (20212022) — Substance use disorder: counselors.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services and authorizes the department to enforce those provisions. Existing law also requires the department to require that an individual providing counseling services within a program be certified by a certifying organization approved by the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2473 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2473 Nazarian et al. By Eggman — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2473 Nazarian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2473 Nazarian Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nazarian — primary (person)
• Haney — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-31 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4852.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-08 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-11 From Consent Calendar.
• 2022-08-11 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5060.). 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.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 594, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f6b60fb-2c8b-4cf2-a8ca-ec17ac6001e7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).