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AB 516 — Registered veterinary technicians and veterinary assistants: scope of practice.

Congress · introduced 2025-10-06

Latest action: — Secretary of State

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · 1 — Read first time. To print.
  2. · 3 — From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
  3. · 2 — Referred to Com. on B. & P.
  4. · 7 — 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.
  5. · 9 — From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
  6. · 24 — Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  7. · 41 — Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1386.)
  8. · 112 — In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  9. · 2 — Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
  10. · 6 — From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  11. · 114 — From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. · 117 — From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
  13. · 23 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  14. · 124 — Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2413.).
  15. · 64 — In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  16. · 65 — Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2876.).
  17. · 77 — Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  18. · 80 — Approved by the Governor.
  19. · 79 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 371, Statutes of 2025.

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Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Kalra, Ash (D, state_lower CA-25)sponsor0—5
2Cortese, Dave (D, state_upper CA-15)cosponsor0—1
3Patterson, Joe (R, state_lower CA-5)cosponsor0—1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

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