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Bill	Optometry: assistants and scope of practice.	Existing law prohibits any person, other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist, from measuring the powers or range of human vision or determining the accommodative and refractive status of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or prescribing ophthalmic devices. Existing law provides that an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced who is acting under the direct responsibility and supervision of an ophthalmologist or optometrist may, among other things, perform tonometry and perform nonsubjective auto refraction in connection with subjective refraction procedures performed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 407	California AB 407 (20212022)	bill	Optometry: assistants and scope of practice.	enacted	Salas	7	26	7	2021-02-03	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/f1f1cc21-7f8b-4155-8321-d9f99e506aa9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB407	56570ead6e2a17ae3dea342216970f5b7d0089c1212d7e777742fe7f8f864233	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 407 (20212022) — Optometry: assistants and scope of practice.

Existing law prohibits any person, other than a physician and surgeon or optometrist, from measuring the powers or range of human vision or determining the accommodative and refractive status of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or prescribing ophthalmic devices. Existing law provides that an assistant in any setting where optometry or ophthalmology is practiced who is acting under the direct responsibility and supervision of an ophthalmologist or optometrist may, among other things, perform tonometry and perform nonsubjective auto refraction in connection with subjective refraction procedures performed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist.

Version chain

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

1. 02/03/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB407 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB407 Salas et al. By Roth — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 407 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 407 Salas Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Low — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-04 From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
• 2021-02-12 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 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
• 2021-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1407.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-13 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-27 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 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
• 2021-07-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2536.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2021-09-09 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3087.)
• 2021-09-10 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (September 10). committee-passage
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3117.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 652, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f1f1cc21-7f8b-4155-8321-d9f99e506aa9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).