---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer."
description: "Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2459"
citation: "California AB 2459 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Diaz"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 38
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2002-02-21"
last_action: "2002-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c1142e6-f527-4021-9dcb-1e8f7e7edd4d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459"
source_hash: "415923e026535186e88d71273b2823a2939d197f3fad366a5ac46461945e576f"
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 2459 (20012002) — Physicians and surgeons: prostate cancer.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/21/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245999INT)
2. **04/10/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245998AMD)
3. **05/01/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245997AMD)
4. **05/13/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245996AMD)
5. **05/23/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245995AMD)
6. **06/25/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245994AMD)
7. **08/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245993AMD)
8. **08/19/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245992AMD)
9. **09/15/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245990CHP)
10. **AB2459** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459)
11. **08/25/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2459&version=20010AB245991ENR)

## Votes

- Reconsideration granted. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2459 Diaz By Chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Business and Professions. — **fail** (fail) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Health. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Business and Professions Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2459 Diaz Special Consent Calendar 2nd Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2459 Diaz Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2459 Diaz — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Diaz — primary (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- Johannessen — coauthor (person)
- Vargas — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)
- Wright — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-06** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2002-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 8089.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5640.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-19** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, reading-3, passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-15** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2002-08-15** From Special Consent Calendar. To unfinished business file. Ordered returned to Senate.
- **2002-08-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2002-08-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5371.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-08-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-07-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2002-06-28** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-06-27** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2002-06-25** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-17** Senate Rule 21.5 (k)(2) suspended.
- **2002-06-04** Referred to H. & H.S. and Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6458.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 22). Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-14** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-13** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-05-09** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 7). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-08** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Health. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-04-11** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2002-03-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Business, Professions and Consumer Protection and Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2002-02-21** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/1c1142e6-f527-4021-9dcb-1e8f7e7edd4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).