---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prisoners: medical treatment."
description: "Existing law provides for the designation and selection of health care surrogates, and for the manner of making health care decisions for patients without surrogates."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1423"
citation: "California AB 1423 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Prisoners: medical treatment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61bb881e-3f9d-45da-a1d7-80c82161cad0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423"
source_hash: "87f6fff73c566838fb505ae3ae09b3c59fc6a681a9fc759d3cf4ed2239c219f2"
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 1423 (20152016) — Prisoners: medical treatment.

Existing law provides for the designation and selection of health care surrogates, and for the manner of making health care decisions for patients without surrogates.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423&version=20150AB142399INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423&version=20150AB142398AMD)
3. **04/20/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423&version=20150AB142397AMD)
4. **09/30/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423&version=20150AB142395CHP)
5. **AB1423** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423)
6. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1423&version=20150AB142396ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1423 Mark Stone By Glazer — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1423 STONE Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-21** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1564.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-09-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2433.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-09-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 381, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61bb881e-3f9d-45da-a1d7-80c82161cad0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).