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Bill	Registered veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants: scope of practice.	Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, establishes the California Veterinary Medical Board to license and regulate the practice of veterinary medicine. Existing law authorizes registered veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants to perform animal health care services prescribed by law under the supervision of a veterinarian, and authorizes registered veterinary technicians to perform animal health care services on animals impounded by a state, county, city, or city and county agency pursuant to an order of a veterinarian.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 516	California AB 516 (20252026)	bill	Registeredveterinarytechniciansandveterinaryassistants scopeofpractice	enacted	Kalra	5	19	6	2025-02-10	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/fa489096-4545-48c1-b726-169c8de0b4f9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB516	8ded8fdc7109718d3a8433018d8280fefbbc4ceb451321c3680cce18ab449887	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 516 (20252026) — Registered veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants: scope of practice.

Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, establishes the California Veterinary Medical Board to license and regulate the practice of veterinary medicine. Existing law authorizes registered veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants to perform animal health care services prescribed by law under the supervision of a veterinarian, and authorizes registered veterinary technicians to perform animal health care services on animals impounded by a state, county, city, or city and county agency pursuant to an order of a veterinarian.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/16/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB516 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/05/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 516 Kalra Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 516 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB516 Kalra et al. By Cortese — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Patterson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1386.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-14 Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2025-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 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 APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-23 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2413.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2876.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 371, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa489096-4545-48c1-b726-169c8de0b4f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).