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Bill	Pharmacists: naloxone hydrochloride.	Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law, generally, authorizes a pharmacist to dispense or furnish drugs only pursuant to a valid prescription. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish emergency contraceptives and hormonal contraceptives pursuant to standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the board and the Medical Board of California, as specified, or developed by the pharmacist and an authorized prescriber. Existing law also authorizes a pharmacist to furnish nicotine replacement products pursuant to standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the board and the Medical Board of California, as specified. Existing law authorizes a licensed health care provider who is permitted to prescribe an opioid antagonist and is acting with reasonable care to prescribe and dispense or distribute an opioid antagonist for the treatment of an opioid overdose to a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose or a family member, friend, or other person in a position to assist a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1535	California AB 1535 (20132014)	bill	Pharmacists: naloxone hydrochloride.	enacted	Bloom	7	24	7	2014-01-21	2014-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/9f89ff03-3fac-4dca-ba70-33ffee259335	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1535	1b9af2ad34bb407e136374b47cd3b72e6d8f6bc75f56fd46400ec5fb31310ea9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1535 (20132014) — Pharmacists: naloxone hydrochloride.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy. Existing law, generally, authorizes a pharmacist to dispense or furnish drugs only pursuant to a valid prescription. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to furnish emergency contraceptives and hormonal contraceptives pursuant to standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the board and the Medical Board of California, as specified, or developed by the pharmacist and an authorized prescriber. Existing law also authorizes a pharmacist to furnish nicotine replacement products pursuant to standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the board and the Medical Board of California, as specified. Existing law authorizes a licensed health care provider who is permitted to prescribe an opioid antagonist and is acting with reasonable care to prescribe and dispense or distribute an opioid antagonist for the treatment of an opioid overdose to a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose or a family member, friend, or other person in a position to assist a person at risk of an opioid-related overdose.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/24/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/15/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1535 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1535 BLOOM Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1535 BLOOM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1535 Bloom By Pavley — 35–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bloom — primary (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2014-01-30 Referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-03-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-19 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on B.,P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2014-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4848.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-08 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2014-06-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2014-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4368.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6033.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2014-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 326, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f89ff03-3fac-4dca-ba70-33ffee259335. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).