republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-534.md

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Bill	Dental hygienists.	(1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of dental hygienists by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires applicants for licensure to provide fingerprint images for submission to governmental agencies, in order to, among other things, establish the identity of the applicant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 534	California SB 534 (20212022)	bill	Dental hygienists.	enacted	Jones	8	31	7	2021-02-17	2021-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/4c19a8df-1ca4-40cb-8f21-5d5b1baf274e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB534	5cd036d4f1089d051290605b1a3ed265cc7cf030de62ecf7d087d3bd11a5ee6c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 534 (20212022) — Dental hygienists.

(1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of dental hygienists by the Dental Hygiene Board of California within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law requires applicants for licensure to provide fingerprint images for submission to governmental agencies, in order to, among other things, establish the identity of the applicant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/04/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB534 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/07/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB534 Jones Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 534 Jones Senate Third Reading By Chen — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 19–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 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 RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-03-04 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0. Page 670.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 19.
• 2021-04-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 840.) (April 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-29 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1037.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-06 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-30 June 30 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2719.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2380.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 491, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c19a8df-1ca4-40cb-8f21-5d5b1baf274e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).