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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms."
+description: "Existing law defines a request regarding resuscitative measures to mean a written document, signed by an individual, as specified, and the physician, that directs a health care provider regarding resuscitative measures, and includes a Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form (POLST form) . Existing law requires a physician to treat a patient in accordance with the POLST form and specifies the criteria for creation of a POLST form, including that the form be completed by a health care provider based on patient preferences and medical indications, and signed by a physician and the patient or his or her legally recognized health care decisionmaker."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 637"
+citation: "California AB 637 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Campos"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2015-02-24"
+last_action: "2015-08-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dda0dc22-2e1e-425a-a295-f8209ef6ca73"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB637"
+source_hash: "c2da0d115b141d5558f45828aceb3b9cb35f816da381c60fb0496ca5f3665304"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 637 (20152016) — Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment forms.
+
+Existing law defines a request regarding resuscitative measures to mean a written document, signed by an individual, as specified, and the physician, that directs a health care provider regarding resuscitative measures, and includes a Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form (POLST form) . Existing law requires a physician to treat a patient in accordance with the POLST form and specifies the criteria for creation of a POLST form, including that the form be completed by a health care provider based on patient preferences and medical indications, and signed by a physician and the patient or his or her legally recognized health care decisionmaker.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB637&version=20150AB63799INT)
+2. **08/17/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB637&version=20150AB63797CHP)
+3. **AB637** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB637)
+4. **07/08/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB637&version=20150AB63798ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB637 Campos By Monning — **37–2** (pass) · upper
+- AB 637 CAMPOS Assembly Third Reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Campos — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
+- **2015-03-09** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-04-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 968.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-04-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
+- **2015-06-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2015-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 2. Page 1784.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2015-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2015-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2015-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 217, Statutes of 2015.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dda0dc22-2e1e-425a-a295-f8209ef6ca73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+