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Bill
Drug overdose treatment: liability.
Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon to prescribe, dispense, or administer prescription drugs, including prescription-controlled substances, to an addict under his or her treatment, as specified. Existing law prohibits, except in the regular practice of his or her profession, any person from knowingly prescribing, administering, dispensing, or furnishing a controlled substance to or for any person who is not under his or her treatment for a pathology or condition other than an addiction to a controlled substance, except as specified.
us/states/ca
California Legislature
20132014
AB 635
California AB 635 (20132014)
Drug overdose treatment: liability.
enacted
7
19
5
2013-02-20
2013-10-10
openstates
ocd-bill/fa19ac59-d7f8-4f7b-beb3-bb13f7c03afc
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB635
cf5f45131030b0886b36b635365177668989a9ae408153be19c8ec4bdde2596d
2026-07-01
https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump
2026-07-06
reported
California AB 635 (20132014) — Drug overdose treatment: liability.
Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon to prescribe, dispense, or administer prescription drugs, including prescription-controlled substances, to an addict under his or her treatment, as specified. Existing law prohibits, except in the regular practice of his or her profession, any person from knowingly prescribing, administering, dispensing, or furnishing a controlled substance to or for any person who is not under his or her treatment for a pathology or condition other than an addiction to a controlled substance, except as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
04/11/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
06/24/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
08/22/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10/10/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
AB635 (committee substitute) — source
09/12/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source
Votes
Do pass. — 8– 0 (pass) · lower
AB 635 AMMIANO Assembly Third Reading — 77– 0 (pass) · lower
AB 635 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77– 0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended. — 6– 0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB635 Ammiano By DeSaulnier — 36– 0 (pass) · upper
Ammiano — primary (person)
DeSaulnier — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2013-03-04 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2013-04-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2013-04-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-04-11 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 877.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-04-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 915.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-04-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2013-04-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2013-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2013-06-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
2013-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2013-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2183.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2013-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2013-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3035.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2013-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 707, Statutes of 2013.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01 ; origin ocd-bill/fa19ac59-d7f8-4f7b-beb3-bb13f7c03afc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).