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type: "Bill"
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title: "End of life."
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description: "Existing law authorizes an adult to give an individual health care instruction and to appoint an attorney to make health care decisions for that individual in the event of his or her incapacity pursuant to a power of attorney for health care."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016 Special Session 2"
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identifier: "AB 15"
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citation: "California AB 15 (20152016 Special Session 2)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["End of life."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2015-08-17"
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last_action: "2015-10-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56ec2401-82de-4b2a-ab4a-610aebf4591c"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15"
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source_hash: "16db7b8dd5adc467a796c1118987c28424a3e3caf8c1db815b68116d0e8c7208"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 15 (20152016 Special Session 2) — End of life.
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Existing law authorizes an adult to give an individual health care instruction and to appoint an attorney to make health care decisions for that individual in the event of his or her incapacity pursuant to a power of attorney for health care.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **08/17/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15&version=20152AB1599INT)
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2. **09/03/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15&version=20152AB1598AMD)
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3. **10/05/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15&version=20152AB1595CHP)
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4. **AB15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15)
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5. **09/14/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520162AB15&version=20152AB1596ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **5–3** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB15 Eggman By Wolk and Monning — **23–15** (pass) · upper
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- AB 15 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **44–35** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Finance] — **10–3** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Eggman — primary (person)
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- Alejo — author (person)
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- Allen — coauthor (person)
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- Atkins — coauthor (person)
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- Block — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — principal coauthor (person)
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- Burke — coauthor (person)
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- Chiu — coauthor (person)
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- Chu — coauthor (person)
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- Cooper — coauthor (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- De León — coauthor (person)
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- Frazier — coauthor (person)
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- Glazer — coauthor (person)
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- Hall — coauthor (person)
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- Hancock — coauthor (person)
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- Hernandez — coauthor (person)
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- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
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- Hill — coauthor (person)
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- Jackson — coauthor (person)
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- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
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- Leno — coauthor (person)
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- Low — coauthor (person)
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- Mark Stone — author (person)
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- McCarty — coauthor (person)
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- McGuire — coauthor (person)
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- Mitchell — coauthor (person)
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- Monning — principal coauthor (person)
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- Perea — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk — coauthor (person)
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- Rendon — coauthor (person)
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- Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
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- Wolk — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-08-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-08-18** From printer.
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- **2015-08-27** Referred to Com. on P.H. & D.S. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-09-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on FINANCE. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-03** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-03** Re-referred to Com. on FINANCE. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-09-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on FINANCE. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-04** Re-referred to Com. on FINANCE. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-09-04** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (September 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 44. Noes 35. Page 85.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-09-09** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2015-09-09** (Ayes 24. Noes 14. Page 72.)
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- **2015-09-09** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2015-09-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 15. Page 81.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2015-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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- **2015-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1, Statutes of 2015-16 Second Extraordinary Session.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/56ec2401-82de-4b2a-ab4a-610aebf4591c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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