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Bill	Vocational nursing: direction of naturopathic doctor.	Existing law, the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. The act defines the practice of vocational nursing as the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an approved school of vocational nursing, or its equivalent, practiced under the direction of a licensed physician or registered professional nurse, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 994	California SB 994 (20212022)	bill	Vocational nursing: direction of naturopathic doctor.	enacted	Jones	7	27	6	2022-02-14	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/a4d68ced-d2f1-4cd1-9246-951da9062c80	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB994	f769039b894edcb144c613d35e3279889e6c6413a5dfa7e2d48ee9eff55fdbf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 994 (20212022) — Vocational nursing: direction of naturopathic doctor.

Existing law, the Vocational Nursing Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of vocational nurses by the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. The act defines the practice of vocational nursing as the performance of services requiring those technical, manual skills acquired by means of a course in an approved school of vocational nursing, or its equivalent, practiced under the direction of a licensed physician or registered professional nurse, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB994 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB994 Jones Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 994 Jones Senate Third Reading By Vince Fong — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-15 From printer.
• 2022-02-23 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2022-03-15 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
• 2022-03-16 Set for hearing April 18.
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 3412.) (April 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-04-26 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2022-05-02 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2022-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3645.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-09 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-12 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2022-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-06-30 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
• 2022-06-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5313.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 713, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4d68ced-d2f1-4cd1-9246-951da9062c80. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).