republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-409.md

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Bill	Pharmacy practice: testing.	Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the performance of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) unless specific criteria are met, including that the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 409	California SB 409 (20212022)	bill	Pharmacy practice: testing.	enacted	Caballero	7	29	6	2021-02-12	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/d9cc7944-3bdb-4411-a91c-5c7ef1de106d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB409	b4487ce19e05561d4e38466b6168a4fcf2aa407c9a7bf6d22da600d221f384c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 409 (20212022) — Pharmacy practice: testing.

Existing law provides for the licensure, registration, and regulation of clinical laboratories and various clinical laboratory personnel by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits the performance of a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) unless specific criteria are met, including that the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/01/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/03/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB409 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/10/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB409 Caballero Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 409 Caballero Senate Third Reading By Low — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-03-02 Set for hearing March 8.
• 2021-03-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 405.) (March 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2021-03-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 659.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-23 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Irwin.
• 2021-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2816.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2522.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 604, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9cc7944-3bdb-4411-a91c-5c7ef1de106d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).