republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-450.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Paramedic Disciplinary Review Board."
description: "Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority to establish training standards for emergency medical technicians at various levels and to issue EMT-P licenses, among other things. Existing law authorizes the authority to take disciplinary action against an EMT-P licenseholder, including to suspend or revoke a license and to assess administrative fines. Existing law creates the Emergency Medical Services Personnel Fund, which, upon appropriation of the Legislature, is used by the authority for its testing and licensure program, and into which specified fees are deposited."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 450"
citation: "California AB 450 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Paramedic Disciplinary Review Board."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lorena Gonzalez"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2021-02-08"
last_action: "2021-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44d2d8bd-ef9f-4c7c-9a16-bfeda8cd6a02"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450"
source_hash: "f2d57ae3a336d38997e2c840d4ef711bb3bdeddc72a6e78d6a5ec3b17d8f6381"
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 450 (20212022) — Paramedic Disciplinary Review Board.

Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority to establish training standards for emergency medical technicians at various levels and to issue EMT-P licenses, among other things. Existing law authorizes the authority to take disciplinary action against an EMT-P licenseholder, including to suspend or revoke a license and to assess administrative fines. Existing law creates the Emergency Medical Services Personnel Fund, which, upon appropriation of the Legislature, is used by the authority for its testing and licensure program, and into which specified fees are deposited.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45099INT)
2. **03/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45098AMD)
3. **05/03/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45097AMD)
4. **06/28/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45096AMD)
5. **09/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45095AMD)
6. **10/04/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45093CHP)
7. **AB450** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450)
8. **09/13/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB450&version=20210AB45094ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 450 GONZALEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 450 Lorena Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB450 Lorena Gonzalez et a By Pan — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Emergency Management] — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lorena Gonzalez — primary (person)
- Rodriguez — author (person)
- Seyarto — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and E.M. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** 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`
- **2021-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.M. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on E.M. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-04** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1602.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-28** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-09-02** From special consent calendar.
- **2021-09-02** Ordered to third reading.
- **2021-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2580.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2021-09-09** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3063.)
- **2021-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3075.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-17** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2021-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 463, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44d2d8bd-ef9f-4c7c-9a16-bfeda8cd6a02`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).