---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law."
description: "Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 556"
citation: "California AB 556 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Davis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-19"
last_action: "2000-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc163c8e-2f66-427c-83af-0e7dbca02245"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556"
source_hash: "b8eda4d219ccd1e9868eba7b27794364ba2e3398abb81ff1731a220e742bc82c"
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 556 (19992000) — Drugs and devices: conformity to federal law.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/19/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556&version=19990AB55699INT)
2. **04/26/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556&version=19990AB55698AMD)
3. **08/28/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556&version=19990AB55697AMD)
4. **09/28/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556&version=19990AB55695CHP)
5. **AB556** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556)
6. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB556&version=19990AB55696ENR)

## Votes

- AB 556 DAVIS SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB556 Davis — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #23 AB556 Davis — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 556 DAVIS THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 796, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 9024.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6361.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-28** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-03** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **1999-09-03** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly. Action rescinded whereby the bill was enrolled and presented to the Governor. Ordered returned to the Senate. `executive-receipt`
- **1999-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **1999-08-24** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-08-23** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2569.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-08-18** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-07-01** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2155.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-04-28** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-26** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-04-22** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 6). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-04** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **1999-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc163c8e-2f66-427c-83af-0e7dbca02245`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).