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type: "Bill"
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title: "Health care professions: deceptive terms or letters: artificial intelligence."
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description: "Existing law establishes various healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs that license and regulate various healing arts licensees. Existing laws, including, among others, the Medical Practice Act and the Dental Practice Act, make it a crime for a person who is not licensed as a specified health care professional to use certain words, letters, and phrases or any other terms that imply that they are authorized to practice that profession."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 489"
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citation: "California AB 489 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Healthcareprofessions", "artificialintelligence", "deceptivetermsorletters"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 28
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vote_count: 10
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first_action: "2025-02-10"
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last_action: "2025-10-11"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88e9e41e-05ed-45e3-8045-898436112c0e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489"
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source_hash: "deec56f2aceddceed4f51dccf517e72a98d1573b800ddcab8266d8b1c63b4749"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 489 (20252026) — Health care professions: deceptive terms or letters: artificial intelligence.
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Existing law establishes various healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs that license and regulate various healing arts licensees. Existing laws, including, among others, the Medical Practice Act and the Dental Practice Act, make it a crime for a person who is not licensed as a specified health care professional to use certain words, letters, and phrases or any other terms that imply that they are authorized to practice that profession.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/10/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48999INT)
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2. **04/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48998AMD)
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3. **06/16/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48997AMD)
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4. **07/08/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48996AMD)
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5. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48994CHP)
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6. **AB489** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489)
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7. **09/10/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB489&version=20250AB48995ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **17–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Special Consent AB489 Bonta et al. By Weber Pierson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 489 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 489 Bonta Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Bonta — primary (person)
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- Addis — coauthor (person)
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- Ashby — coauthor (person)
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- Bains — coauthor (person)
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- Berman — coauthor (person)
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- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
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- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
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- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)
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- Wilson — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
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- **2025-03-17** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-01** Coauthors revised.
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- **2025-04-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1832.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-11** Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-02** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2025-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2521.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3026.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 615, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88e9e41e-05ed-45e3-8045-898436112c0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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