--- type: "Bill" title: "Healing arts: self-reporting tools." description: "The Medical Practice Act provides for licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California, and authorizes a physician and surgeon to, among other things, use drugs or devices in or upon human beings. The Medical Practice Act makes it unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to prescribe, dispense, or furnish dangerous drugs without an appropriate prior examination and medical indication. The act prohibits, with specified exceptions, a person or entity from prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing, or causing to be prescribed, dispensed, or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices on the Internet for delivery to a person in California without an appropriate prior examination and medical indication." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20152016" identifier: "SB 464" citation: "California SB 464 (20152016)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Healing arts: self-reporting tools."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez"] version_count: 6 action_count: 25 vote_count: 7 first_action: "2015-02-25" last_action: "2015-09-30" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1f1677b-116b-4d2c-848c-6841f46eb96f" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464" source_hash: "f717d09664b09f02d6901cbaab2f44a05e6d1b3e88d3d0a15fde3f624abe6b22" 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 SB 464 (20152016) — Healing arts: self-reporting tools. The Medical Practice Act provides for licensure and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California, and authorizes a physician and surgeon to, among other things, use drugs or devices in or upon human beings. The Medical Practice Act makes it unprofessional conduct for a physician and surgeon to prescribe, dispense, or furnish dangerous drugs without an appropriate prior examination and medical indication. The act prohibits, with specified exceptions, a person or entity from prescribing, dispensing, or furnishing, or causing to be prescribed, dispensed, or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices on the Internet for delivery to a person in California without an appropriate prior examination and medical indication. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/25/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464&version=20150SB46499INT) 2. **04/27/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464&version=20150SB46498AMD) 3. **05/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464&version=20150SB46497AMD) 4. **09/30/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464&version=20150SB46495CHP) 5. **SB464** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464) 6. **08/31/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB464&version=20150SB46496ENR) ## Votes - 3rd Reading — **27–2** (pass) · upper - Unfinished Business SB464 Hernandez Concurrence — **29–5** (pass) · upper - That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — **8–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **14–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass — **8–0** (pass) · upper - SB 464 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **73–1** (pass) · lower - Do pass. — **15–1** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Hernandez — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2015-02-25** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2015-02-26** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 28. - **2015-03-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2015-04-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1` - **2015-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee` - **2015-04-29** Set for hearing May 4. - **2015-05-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 885.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2015-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2015-05-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 2. Page 952.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2015-05-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2015-05-22** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee` - **2015-05-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1` - **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2015-07-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (July 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2015-07-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2015-08-20** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 1. Page 2530.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2015-08-20** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2015-08-24** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). `referral-committee` - **2015-08-24** From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 2161.) Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee, committee-passage` - **2015-08-26** Set for hearing August 27. - **2015-08-27** From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 2235.) `committee-passage` - **2015-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 5. Page 2270.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2015-09-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m. - **2015-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2015-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 387, Statutes of 2015. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a1f1677b-116b-4d2c-848c-6841f46eb96f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).