The California Legislature voted to advance three bills that will significantly impact the Veterinary Medicine Practice Act: AB 1999 (Kalra) (Coauthor Berman): Veterinary medicine, AB 2010 (Soria) Veterinary medicine: veterinary surgery premises: spay and neuter services, and AB 1733 (Lee): License and registration renewal: continuing education.

On June 29, 2026, the California Veterinary Medical Association testified in opposition to two bills—AB 2774 and AB 2775—that were potentially going to include new language that would allow all licensed human health care providers to expand their scopes of practice to include animals following the completion of a certification program. The CVMA has a long history of successfully fighting scope creep attempts by chiropractors and physical therapists, including stalled legislation earlier this year that would have permitted chiropractors who have taken a certification course to expand their practices to include animals by becoming a “animal chiropractic practitioner.”