---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: administration of medicinal cannabis: schoolsites."
description: "Existing law authorizes a school nurse or other designated school personnel to assist any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician and surgeon or ordered for the pupil by a physician assistant, if the school district receives specified written statements from the physician and surgeon or physician assistant and from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "California SB 223 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health: administration of medicinal cannabis: schoolsites."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2847dcee-29db-46d3-b0f0-016f8559c9ff"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223"
source_hash: "840f0a59d61022e2d9da1bbf6e0feee24752f799191fc2f8ae6e09de82d2ddaa"
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 223 (20192020) — Pupil health: administration of medicinal cannabis: schoolsites.

Existing law authorizes a school nurse or other designated school personnel to assist any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician and surgeon or ordered for the pupil by a physician assistant, if the school district receives specified written statements from the physician and surgeon or physician assistant and from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223&version=20190SB22399INT)
2. **03/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223&version=20190SB22398AMD)
3. **06/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223&version=20190SB22397AMD)
4. **10/09/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223&version=20190SB22395CHP)
5. **SB223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223)
6. **09/03/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB223&version=20190SB22396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB223 Hill et al. Concurrence — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- SB 223 Hill Senate Third Reading By Smith — **43–22** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB223 Hill et al. — **29–4** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Moorlach — coauthor (person)
- Quirk — coauthor (person)
- Smith — coauthor (person)
- Stone — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2019-02-21** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Set for hearing March 20.
- **2019-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 383.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 438.) (March 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-03-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-03-28** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 4. Page 476.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-03-28** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 43. Noes 22. Page 2846.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2019-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 2326.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 699, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2847dcee-29db-46d3-b0f0-016f8559c9ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).