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Bill	Veterinary medicine: veterinary assistants.	Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, provides for the licensure and registration of veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians and the regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine by the Veterinary Medical Board. The act also permits unregistered assistants to carry out specified acts in the veterinary care and treatment of animals, and authorizes the board to regulate the veterinary care activities of unregistered assistants.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1839	California AB 1839 (20112012)	bill	Veterinary medicine: veterinary assistants.	enacted	Ma	6	24	6	2012-02-22	2012-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/58ecc314-2c82-47aa-8e11-e4bee708bf36	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1839	d4979be9c4cf8634f469daa6145e6dceb4a1ecee1a145b9d3082d35fcc4962b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1839 (20112012) — Veterinary medicine: veterinary assistants.

Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, provides for the licensure and registration of veterinarians and registered veterinary technicians and the regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine by the Veterinary Medical Board. The act also permits unregistered assistants to carry out specified acts in the veterinary care and treatment of animals, and authorizes the board to regulate the veterinary care activities of unregistered assistants.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/07/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB1839 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1839 Ma By Price — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1839 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1839 MA Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ma — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-22 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4568.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-03 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2012-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2012-06-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-05 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4433.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 5888.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
• 2012-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 239, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/58ecc314-2c82-47aa-8e11-e4bee708bf36. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).