republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2671.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational therapy."
description: "Existing law, the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, establishes the California Board of Occupational Therapy for the licensure and regulation of the practice of occupational therapy. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing occupational therapy or working as an occupational therapy assistant under the supervision of an occupational therapist without being licensed under the act. Existing law also prohibits a therapist from supervising more occupational therapy assistants, at any one time, than can be appropriately supervised in the opinion of the board. Existing law prohibits the total number of occupational therapy assistants from exceeding twice the number of occupational therapists regularly employed by a facility at any one time. The act makes a violation of these prohibitions a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2671"
citation: "California AB 2671 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupational therapy."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e96d9c26-0873-47e9-b9e2-ad230726dcb8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671"
source_hash: "7788d952a94de54cbc24455c35fbbf0cf79abaf49378e8ca06898956efce7d64"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2671 (20212022) — Occupational therapy.

Existing law, the Occupational Therapy Practice Act, establishes the California Board of Occupational Therapy for the licensure and regulation of the practice of occupational therapy. Existing law prohibits a person from practicing occupational therapy or working as an occupational therapy assistant under the supervision of an occupational therapist without being licensed under the act. Existing law also prohibits a therapist from supervising more occupational therapy assistants, at any one time, than can be appropriately supervised in the opinion of the board. Existing law prohibits the total number of occupational therapy assistants from exceeding twice the number of occupational therapists regularly employed by a facility at any one time. The act makes a violation of these prohibitions a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267199INT)
2. **04/27/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267198AMD)
3. **06/13/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267197AMD)
4. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267196AMD)
5. **09/13/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267194CHP)
6. **AB2671** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671)
7. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2671&version=20210AB267195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent AB2671 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2671 B. & P. Assembly Third Reading By FLORA — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2671 Berman Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-10** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-04-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-28** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `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`
- **2022-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4944.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-06-08** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-13** 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. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4987.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:30 p.m.
- **2022-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e96d9c26-0873-47e9-b9e2-ad230726dcb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).