CA AB 1587

enacted

Prescription drug refills: prescriber notifications.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to, among other things, perform certain procedures or functions and furnish specified drugs. Existing law authorizes the refilling of a prescription for a dangerous drug without the authorization of the prescriber if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the refill and, in the pharmacist's professional judgment, failure to refill the prescription might interrupt the patient's ongoing care and have a significant adverse effect on the patient's well-being. Existing law requires a pharmacist to notify the prescriber, as specified, of any prescription refilled without their authorization. This bill would only require a pharmacist to provide that notification if a prescriber is identified.

Introduced: 2026-03-18
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 69, Statutes of 2026.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-01-15
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2026-01-16
From printer. May be heard in committee February 15.
2026-02-02
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-03-18
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-03-19
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
referral-committee
2026-04-07
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-15
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 15).
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2026-04-16
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-04-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4794.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
referral-committee
2026-06-08
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-22
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-06-23
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-06-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0.).
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2026-06-25
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2026-07-02
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2026-07-13
Approved by the Governor.
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2026-07-13
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 69, Statutes of 2026.
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Versions

01/15/26 - Introduced — 2026-01-15Compare
03/18/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-03-18Compare
06/29/26 - Enrolled — 2026-06-29Compare
07/13/26 - Chaptered — 2026-07-13Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-04-07 · pass · 19-0
Member-level votes (19)
- Elhawary: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Chen: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Berman: yes
- Haney: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-04-15 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Krell: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: other
- Muratsuchi: other
AB 1587 Ta Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-04-23 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Irwin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ta: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Haney: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Lee: yes
- Chen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Flora: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Bains: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patel: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Hadwick: other
- Soria: other
- Addis: other
- Wicks: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-08 · pass · 10-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Archuleta: yes
- Choi: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Niello: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2026-06-25 · pass · 36-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Gonzalez: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Grove: yes
- Laird: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Niello: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Allen: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Choi: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Stern: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Dahle: other
- Reyes: other
- Jones: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other

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