republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-460.md

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Bill	Radiologic technologists: venipuncture: direct supervision.	Existing law, the Radiologic Technology Act, provides for the certification and regulation of radiologic technologists by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of the act or regulation of the department adopted pursuant to the act a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes a radiologic technologist to perform venipuncture in an upper extremity, as specified, under the direct supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon. Existing law defines direct supervision for purposes of that provision to mean the direction of procedures by a licensed physician and surgeon who is physically present and available within the facility when the procedures are performed to provide immediate medical intervention prevent or mitigate injury to the patient in the event of adverse reaction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 460	California AB 460 (20252026)	bill	Radiologictechnologists directsupervision venipuncture	enacted	Chen	7	28	8	2025-02-06	2025-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/b85ee963-df32-4fe3-933e-3d96cf8736b6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB460	cebaca6a1f3820334d319731d3649f6cc89b0b9b1f7fd526b3ea96c522eb8746	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 460 (20252026) — Radiologic technologists: venipuncture: direct supervision.

Existing law, the Radiologic Technology Act, provides for the certification and regulation of radiologic technologists by the State Department of Public Health and makes a violation of the act or regulation of the department adopted pursuant to the act a misdemeanor. Existing law authorizes a radiologic technologist to perform venipuncture in an upper extremity, as specified, under the direct supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon. Existing law defines direct supervision for purposes of that provision to mean the direction of procedures by a licensed physician and surgeon who is physically present and available within the facility when the procedures are performed to provide immediate medical intervention prevent or mitigate injury to the patient in the event of adverse reaction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/07/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/07/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB460 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB460 Chen By Valladares — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 460 Chen Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 460 Chen Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chen — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 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
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2024.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-03 From special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2667.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3365.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 435, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b85ee963-df32-4fe3-933e-3d96cf8736b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).