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Bill	Narcotic treatment programs.	Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to administer prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law requires the department to license the establishment of narcotic treatment programs in this state to use narcotic replacement therapy in the treatment of addicted persons whose addiction was acquired or supported by the use of a narcotic drug or drugs, not in compliance with a physician and surgeon's legal prescription. Existing law authorizes a program to admit a patient to narcotic maintenance or narcotic detoxification treatment 7 days after completion of a prior withdrawal treatment episode.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 973	California SB 973 (20132014)	bill	Narcotic treatment programs.	enacted	Hernandez	9	29	7	2014-02-10	2014-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/55fabb71-33b1-4afb-a8fa-f08db10c3fb0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB973	a244580f85b772e689a79ef7485c7d10d6784bf40cce2e78b9dfe952a88d70a4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 973 (20132014) — Narcotic treatment programs.

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to administer prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law requires the department to license the establishment of narcotic treatment programs in this state to use narcotic replacement therapy in the treatment of addicted persons whose addiction was acquired or supported by the use of a narcotic drug or drugs, not in compliance with a physician and surgeon's legal prescription. Existing law authorizes a program to admit a patient to narcotic maintenance or narcotic detoxification treatment 7 days after completion of a prior withdrawal treatment episode.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/29/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/02/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB973 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/20/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB973 Hernandez Concurrence — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 973 Hernandez Senate Third Reading By NESTANDE — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #14 — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hernandez — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2014-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
• 2014-02-20 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2014-04-10 April 23 hearing rescheduled for April 24.
• 2014-04-28 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3279.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-04-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-05-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3441.) (May 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3468.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-15 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2014-05-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2014-06-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-07-02 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-07 From consent calendar.
• 2014-08-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-14 Read third time and amended. (Page 6029.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-14 Ordered to third reading.
• 2014-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6123.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2014-08-19 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4604.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2014-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 484, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55fabb71-33b1-4afb-a8fa-f08db10c3fb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).