CA AB 968
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California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 968 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 968 has been introduced but has not advanced to a vote. Latest recorded action (2025-09-13): Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Pérez.
What is CA AB 968 about?
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes, in the Department of Consumer Affairs, the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, and specified other health care practitioners acting within the scope of their practice to use a self-screening tool to identify patient risk factors for the use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a patient and, after examination, to prescribe, furnish, or dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives to the patient. This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California, in consultation with specified other entities. This bill would authorize a pharmacist to also furnish federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives in accordance with those standardized procedures or protocols. The bill would require a pharmacist, for each federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives initiated, to provide the recipient with a standardized fact sheet, as specified. Existing law prohibits a pharmacist, pharmacist's employer, or pharmacist's agent from directly charging a patient a separate consultation fee for emergency contraception drug therapy services and requires the pharmacist to disclose the total retail price of the emergency contraception drug therapy. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative for dedicated emergency contraception drugs if these drugs are reclassified as over-the-counter products by the federal Food and Drug Administration. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law requires a pharmacist to dispense, at a patient's request, up to a 12-month supply of an FDA-approved, self-administered hormonal contraceptive. This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives. This bill would make related conforming changes.
Who sponsors CA AB 968?
Boerner is the primary sponsor of CA AB 968.
Description
Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes, in the Department of Consumer Affairs, the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, and specified other health care practitioners acting within the scope of their practice to use a self-screening tool to identify patient risk factors for the use of self-administered hormonal contraceptives by a patient and, after examination, to prescribe, furnish, or dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives to the patient. This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the California State Board of Pharmacy and the Medical Board of California, in consultation with specified other entities. This bill would authorize a pharmacist to also furnish federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives in accordance with those standardized procedures or protocols. The bill would require a pharmacist, for each federal Food and Drug Administration-approved nonhormonal contraceptives initiated, to provide the recipient with a standardized fact sheet, as specified. Existing law prohibits a pharmacist, pharmacist's employer, or pharmacist's agent from directly charging a patient a separate consultation fee for emergency contraception drug therapy services and requires the pharmacist to disclose the total retail price of the emergency contraception drug therapy. Existing law makes those provisions inoperative for dedicated emergency contraception drugs if these drugs are reclassified as over-the-counter products by the federal Food and Drug Administration. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law requires a pharmacist to dispense, at a patient's request, up to a 12-month supply of an FDA-approved, self-administered hormonal contraceptive. This bill would, instead, make those provisions applicable to contraceptives. This bill would make related conforming changes.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-07
- Latest action
- 2025-09-13 — Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Pérez.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Boernerauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-09-13
Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Pérez.
2025-08-20
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-19
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2025-07-14
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-09
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-07-03
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-23
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-06-11
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-06-09
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-06-04
Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.
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2025-05-28
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1737.)
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2025-05-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-21
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 21).
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2025-05-14
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-29
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-10
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
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2025-04-08
Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2025-04-07
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-07
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-03-10
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 17-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Caloza: yes
- Bains: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Chen: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Berman: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Hadwick: other
Do pass.
2025-05-21 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pellerin: yes
- Ta: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hart: yes
AB 968 Boerner Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-27 · pass · 77-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Carrillo: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Fong: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Patel: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Addis: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Papan: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Garcia: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Soria: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Davies: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Lee: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bains: yes
- Nguyen: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-14 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Choi: yes
- Strickland: yes
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