CA AB 1733

enacted

License and registration renewal: continuing education.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act, establishes the California Veterinary Medical Board, until January 1, 2030, within the Department of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the licensure of veterinarians, the registration of veterinarian technicians, and the general regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine. Existing law requires the board to issue a renewed veterinarian license or renewed veterinary technician registration to an applicant who completes a minimum number of hours of continuing education. Existing law permits a portion of this continuing education to be completed either as self study or by providing pro bono spay or neuter services for specified agencies. This bill would recast those provisions to, instead, specify that both the self study and the pro bono spay or neuter services may be used to satisfy those requirements.

Introduced: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2026.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-05
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2026-02-06
From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
2026-02-23
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-04-14
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-04-29
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 29).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-30
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-05-07
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 4967.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-05-07
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-20
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2026-06-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-06-15
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-16
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2026-06-18
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-06-18
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2026-06-24
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
executive-receipt
2026-06-30
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-06-30
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 42, Statutes of 2026.
became-law

Versions

02/05/26 - Introduced — 2026-02-05Compare
06/22/26 - Enrolled — 2026-06-22Compare
06/30/26 - Chaptered — 2026-06-30Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-04-14 · pass · 19-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Jackson: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Chen: yes
- Haney: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Addis: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Bains: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hart: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-04-29 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Tangipa: yes
- Solache: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Muratsuchi: other
AB 1733 Lee Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-05-07 · pass · 66-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Fong: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Patel: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Davies: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Haney: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ta: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Solache: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gallagher: other
- Irwin: other
- Hoover: other
- Wicks: other
- Chen: other
- Bonta: other
- Hart: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Valencia: other
- Arambula: other
- Wallis: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Flora: other
- Papan: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-01 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Arreguín: yes
- Niello: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Choi: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Menjivar: other
- Smallwood-Cuevas: other
- Strickland: other
- Caballero: other
- Grayson: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2026-06-18 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Blakespear: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Niello: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Allen: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Jones: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Becker: yes
- Grove: other
- Ashby: other
- Seyarto: other

Related bills

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