---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drugs and devices."
description: "Existing law references various drug compendiums and compendia, including the United States Pharmacopoeia, for purposes of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, disability insurance, and for Medi-Cal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 830"
citation: "California AB 830 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs and devices."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5559eb4f-8b6f-4e44-a579-39286dd4a6a0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830"
source_hash: "5a449f2e8d0982ea00cf1c71aee97cba2c249b47eb3b5ee104d3cad645177681"
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 830 (20092010) — Drugs and devices.

Existing law references various drug compendiums and compendia, including the United States Pharmacopoeia, for purposes of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, disability insurance, and for Medi-Cal.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83099INT)
2. **04/01/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83098AMD)
3. **04/23/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83097AMD)
4. **07/06/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83096AMD)
5. **08/17/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83095AMD)
6. **08/25/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83094AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83092CHP)
8. **AB830** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830)
9. **09/08/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB830&version=20090AB83093ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 830 COOK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 830 COOK Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #17 AB830 Cook — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cook — primary (person)
- Krekorian — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2009-03-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-18** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1629.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-08-24** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 24). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-26** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2023.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2889.)
- **2009-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2910.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10:30 a.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 479, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5559eb4f-8b6f-4e44-a579-39286dd4a6a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).