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Health care professions: deceptive terms or letters: artificial intelligence.

It became law on Oct 11, 2025.

CA AB 489 · Assembly Bill · 2025–2026

Stage
Became law
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Assembly
Sponsors
9
Latest action
Oct 11, 2025

What it does

Existing law establishes various healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs that license and regulate various healing arts licensees. Existing laws, including, among others, the Medical Practice Act and the Dental Practice Act, make it a crime for a person who is not licensed as a specified health care professional to use certain words, letters, and phrases or any other terms that imply that they are authorized to practice that profession.

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Where it stands

This bill passed and is now law.

  1. Introduced (Done)

  2. Committee (Done)

  3. Floor (Done)

  4. Law (Done)

    Oct 11, 2025

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Who is involved

Sponsors

The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.

Where it goes next

Once a bill is decided, the questions are about what is done with it in California.

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