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type: "Bill"
title: "Health professionals and facilities: adverse actions based on another state's law."
description: "Existing law establishes various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate various health professionals. Existing law prohibits the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Physician Assistant Board from denying an application for licensure or suspending, revoking, or otherwise imposing discipline upon a licensee because the person was disciplined in another state in which they are licensed solely for performing an abortion in that state or because the person was convicted in another state for an offense related solely to performing an abortion in that state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1707"
citation: "California AB 1707 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health professionals and facilities", "adverse actions based on another state's law"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pacheco"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c99dab39-59ee-4bf6-ace7-631a45d80d72"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707"
source_hash: "19bd3529e44d1795035282cd6d2f01e93d42cba4e5a3def7d0a73256009d8e9a"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 1707 (20232024) — Health professionals and facilities: adverse actions based on another state's law.
Existing law establishes various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate various health professionals. Existing law prohibits the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Physician Assistant Board from denying an application for licensure or suspending, revoking, or otherwise imposing discipline upon a licensee because the person was disciplined in another state in which they are licensed solely for performing an abortion in that state or because the person was convicted in another state for an offense related solely to performing an abortion in that state.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170799INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170798AMD)
3. **04/12/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170797AMD)
4. **07/10/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170796AMD)
5. **08/22/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170795AMD)
6. **09/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170793CHP)
7. **AB1707** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707)
8. **09/12/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1707&version=20230AB170794ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1707 Pacheco Assembly Third Reading — **6212** (pass) · lower
- AB 1707 Pacheco Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6413** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **91** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **142** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **82** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **122** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **91** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1707 Pacheco et al. By Ashby — **318** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pacheco — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 14. Noes 2.) (April 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 12. Page 1697.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-31** Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E. D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (July 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-10** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2371.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 13. Page 3169.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 258, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c99dab39-59ee-4bf6-ace7-631a45d80d72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).