---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies."
description: "Existing law imposes specified requirements on an audit of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan, and defines certain terms for its purposes, including, among others, pharmacy benefit manager."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 627"
citation: "California AB 627 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gomez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2015-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1cc3fac-d746-4626-97e8-83924834b01d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627"
source_hash: "10b6a9df2f9a0a746c4d267691da6e7e339c396cbdf743bdbdd7d03f5a16dc8c"
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 627 (20152016) — Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies.

Existing law imposes specified requirements on an audit of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan, and defines certain terms for its purposes, including, among others, pharmacy benefit manager.

## 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=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62799INT)
2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62798AMD)
3. **05/27/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62797AMD)
4. **06/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62796AMD)
5. **07/13/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62794CHP)
6. **AB627** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627)
7. **06/29/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627&version=20150AB62795ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #3 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 627 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 627 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — **16–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gomez — primary (person)
- Stone — principal coauthor (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.
- **2015-03-26** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** 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`
- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1343.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-06-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-17** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1549.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-06-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2140.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2015-07-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b1cc3fac-d746-4626-97e8-83924834b01d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).