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Bill	Protection of Patient Choice in Telehealth Provider Act.	(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, it is unlawful for healing arts licensees, except as specified, to offer, deliver, receive, or accept any rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount, or other consideration, in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person, subject to certain exceptions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 457	California AB 457 (20212022)	bill	Protection of Patient Choice in Telehealth Provider Act.	enacted	Santiago	9	28	8	2021-02-08	2021-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/52c888da-ca99-4548-b179-7b85691c02f1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB457	75b90620a0111d50c2c4cab875564970bd870677f3706cd93dcbd076b3caad74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 457 (20212022) — Protection of Patient Choice in Telehealth Provider Act.

(1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various healing arts professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Under existing law, it is unlawful for healing arts licensees, except as specified, to offer, deliver, receive, or accept any rebate, refund, commission, preference, patronage dividend, discount, or other consideration, in the form of money or otherwise, as compensation or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to any person, subject to certain exceptions.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/08/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/27/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/01/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB457 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB457 Santiago et al. By Pan — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 457 Santiago Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 457 Santiago Assembly Third Reading — 63–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Santiago — primary (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2021-02-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 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
• 2021-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-12 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 1. Page 1630.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-06-28 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 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
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2606.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3149.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 439, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/52c888da-ca99-4548-b179-7b85691c02f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).