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CA AB 447

enacted

Emergency room patient prescriptions.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 447 pass?

Yes. CA AB 447 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 363, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 447 about?

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies. Existing law authorizes a prescriber to dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if specified requirements are met, including that the dangerous drug is acquired by the hospital pharmacy. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize a prescriber to dispense an unused portion of a dangerous drug acquired by the hospital pharmacy to an emergency room patient upon discharge if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the dangerous drug is not a controlled substance and that dispensing the unused portion of the dangerous drug is required to continue treatment of the patient. Existing law requires an automated drug delivery system (ADDS) that is installed, leased, owned, or operated in California to be licensed by the board. Existing law exempts an automated unit dose system (AUDS) , a type of ADDS, from licensure if the AUDS is used solely to provide doses administered to patients while in a licensed general acute care hospital facility or a licensed acute psychiatric hospital facility if the licensed hospital pharmacy owns or leases the AUDS and owns the dangerous drugs and dangerous devices in the AUDS. This bill would also exempt from licensure an AUDS that is used to dispense dangerous drugs to emergency room patients in accordance with specified requirements.

Who sponsors CA AB 447?

Mark González is the primary sponsor of CA AB 447.

Description

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies. Existing law authorizes a prescriber to dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if specified requirements are met, including that the dangerous drug is acquired by the hospital pharmacy. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize a prescriber to dispense an unused portion of a dangerous drug acquired by the hospital pharmacy to an emergency room patient upon discharge if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the dangerous drug is not a controlled substance and that dispensing the unused portion of the dangerous drug is required to continue treatment of the patient. Existing law requires an automated drug delivery system (ADDS) that is installed, leased, owned, or operated in California to be licensed by the board. Existing law exempts an automated unit dose system (AUDS) , a type of ADDS, from licensure if the AUDS is used solely to provide doses administered to patients while in a licensed general acute care hospital facility or a licensed acute psychiatric hospital facility if the licensed hospital pharmacy owns or leases the AUDS and owns the dangerous drugs and dangerous devices in the AUDS. This bill would also exempt from licensure an AUDS that is used to dispense dangerous drugs to emergency room patients in accordance with specified requirements.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 363, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Mark Gonzálezauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-06

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-07

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.

  3. 2025-03-03

    Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-28

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.

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  5. 2025-04-01

    Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-04-08

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8).

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  7. 2025-04-09

    Read second time and amended.

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  8. 2025-04-10

    Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

    referral-committee

  9. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29).

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  10. 2025-05-01

    Read second time and amended.

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  11. 2025-05-05

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. 2025-05-14

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

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  13. 2025-05-15

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  14. 2025-05-23

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1662.)

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  15. 2025-05-23

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  16. 2025-06-04

    Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and HEALTH.

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  17. 2025-06-11

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  18. 2025-06-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

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  19. 2025-07-03

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  20. 2025-08-19

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  21. 2025-08-20

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  22. 2025-08-25

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2250.).

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  23. 2025-08-26

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  24. 2025-09-02

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  25. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  26. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 363, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/06/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-06Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 04/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-09Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 08/27/25 - Enrolled — 2025-08-27Compare
  • 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
  • AB447Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health]

    2025-04-08 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (18)
    • Haney: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Berman: other
    • Bauer-Kahan: other
    • Chen: other

  • Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-29 · pass · 16-0

    Member-level votes (16)
    • Chen: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Addis: yes

  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Arambula: yes

  • AB 447 Mark González Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-05-23 · pass · 71-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Bryan: other
    • Sharp-Collins: other
    • Nguyen: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Schultz: other
    • Sanchez: other
    • Chen: other
    • Wicks: other

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-06-23 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Niello: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Arreguín: yes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-07-02 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Menjivar: yes

  • Consent Calendar 2nd AB447 Mark González

    2025-08-25 · pass · 37-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Reyes: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Hurtado: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other
    • Rubio: other

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