---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacies: compounding."
description: "Under the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy by pharmacists and pharmacy corporations in this state. That law prohibits a pharmacy from compounding sterile drug products unless the pharmacy has obtained a sterile compounding pharmacy license from the board. That law requires a pharmacy to compound sterile products from one or more nonsterile ingredients in prescribed environments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 510"
citation: "California SB 510 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pharmacies: compounding."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stone"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53ee0d38-d715-48ca-9e15-aea0bc7f3a29"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB510"
source_hash: "1969ffb0cce8e0e004349d01863dfd13f806ceaf29ad9d855d375ccbd6a80384"
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 510 (20172018) — Pharmacies: compounding.

Under the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy by pharmacists and pharmacy corporations in this state. That law prohibits a pharmacy from compounding sterile drug products unless the pharmacy has obtained a sterile compounding pharmacy license from the board. That law requires a pharmacy to compound sterile products from one or more nonsterile ingredients in prescribed environments.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB510&version=20170SB51099INT)
2. **10/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB510&version=20170SB51097CHP)
3. **SB510** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB510)
4. **09/11/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB510&version=20170SB51098ENR)

## Votes

- SB 510 Stone Senate Third Reading By WALDRON — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd SB510 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
- **2017-03-02** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-14** Set for hearing March 27.
- **2017-03-27** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 488.) (March 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-03-28** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 546.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2017-06-22** Ordered to second reading.
- **2017-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3032.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2017-09-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 649, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53ee0d38-d715-48ca-9e15-aea0bc7f3a29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).