---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors: liability limitation."
description: "Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses and trained personnel who have volunteered, as specified, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction. Existing law requires a qualified supervisor of health or administrator at a school district, county office of education, or charter school to obtain the prescription for epinephrine auto-injectors from an authorizing physician and surgeon, as defined, and authorizes the prescription to be filled by local or mail order pharmacies or epinephrine auto-injector manufacturers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 738"
citation: "California SB 738 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors: liability limitation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Huff"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-07-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/253ab731-fc3d-479d-8106-7f27631687bf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738"
source_hash: "c3ad5e70dd52ddb2d04e6a794d74336972f4ff4406eaa47e0c0f0e0f14cb601e"
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 738 (20152016) — Pupil health: epinephrine auto-injectors: liability limitation.

Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses and trained personnel who have volunteered, as specified, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction. Existing law requires a qualified supervisor of health or administrator at a school district, county office of education, or charter school to obtain the prescription for epinephrine auto-injectors from an authorizing physician and surgeon, as defined, and authorizes the prescription to be filled by local or mail order pharmacies or epinephrine auto-injector manufacturers.

## 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=201520160SB738&version=20150SB73899INT)
2. **04/15/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738&version=20150SB73898AMD)
3. **05/13/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738&version=20150SB73897AMD)
4. **07/16/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738&version=20150SB73895CHP)
5. **SB738** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738)
6. **07/07/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB738&version=20150SB73896ENR)

## Votes

- SB 738 Huff Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Huff — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-19** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2015-03-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-24** Set for hearing May 5.
- **2015-05-12** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 921.) (May 5). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1025.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-01** Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2258.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-06** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2015-07-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2015-07-16** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-16** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 132, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/253ab731-fc3d-479d-8106-7f27631687bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).