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Bill	Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program.	Existing law authorizes a county to establish a repository and distribution program under which a pharmacy, including a pharmacy that is owned by, or contracts with, the county, may distribute surplus unused medications, as defined, to persons in need of financial assistance to ensure access to necessary pharmaceutical therapies. Under existing law, only medication that is donated in unopened, tamper-evident packaging or modified unit dose containers that meet the United States Pharmacopoeia standards, and that includes lot numbers and expiration dates, is eligible for donation to the program. Existing law prohibits medication that does not meet the requirements for donation and distribution from being sold, dispensed, or otherwise transferred to any other entity. Existing law requires medication donated to the repository and distribution program to be maintained in the donated packaging units.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1069	California AB 1069 (20152016)	bill	Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program.	enacted	Gordon	9	27	5	2015-02-26	2016-09-13	openstates	ocd-bill/93637e1d-07cf-427e-94ca-ebdee29e0342	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1069	e69b7cf721dc9fc32e26f5c98a5039188ee6066bc67927167952e6669d81cd84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1069 (20152016) — Prescription drugs: collection and distribution program.

Existing law authorizes a county to establish a repository and distribution program under which a pharmacy, including a pharmacy that is owned by, or contracts with, the county, may distribute surplus unused medications, as defined, to persons in need of financial assistance to ensure access to necessary pharmaceutical therapies. Under existing law, only medication that is donated in unopened, tamper-evident packaging or modified unit dose containers that meet the United States Pharmacopoeia standards, and that includes lot numbers and expiration dates, is eligible for donation to the program. Existing law prohibits medication that does not meet the requirements for donation and distribution from being sold, dispensed, or otherwise transferred to any other entity. Existing law requires medication donated to the repository and distribution program to be maintained in the donated packaging units.

Version chain

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

1. 02/26/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/06/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1069 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1069 Gordon By Beall — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1069 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1069 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gordon — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Mark Stone — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-26 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-27 From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-05-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 5). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1685.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-06-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-07-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5124.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6153.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 316, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/93637e1d-07cf-427e-94ca-ebdee29e0342. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).