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Bill	Workers' compensation: prescription medication formulary.	Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. The administrative director is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal, after public hearings, any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to enforce the state workers' compensation provisions, except when that power is specifically reserved to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt a medical treatment utilization schedule that addresses the frequency, duration, intensity, and appropriateness of all common treatments performed in workers' compensation cases.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1124	California AB 1124 (20152016)	bill	Workers' compensation: prescription medication formulary.	enacted	Perea	11	30	8	2015-02-27	2015-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/fde813c5-3ec6-4d87-835a-607138ae055b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1124	b0bf2be4d36fa6a78a400917a42e9e6a96870ee754691bc88fab208828f29dd2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1124 (20152016) — Workers' compensation: prescription medication formulary.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. The administrative director is authorized to adopt, amend, or repeal, after public hearings, any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary to enforce the state workers' compensation provisions, except when that power is specifically reserved to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. Existing law requires the administrative director to adopt a medical treatment utilization schedule that addresses the frequency, duration, intensity, and appropriateness of all common treatments performed in workers' compensation cases.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/14/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/08/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/06/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1124 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/14/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1124 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1124 Perea By Mendoza — 28–4 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1124 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Perea — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-19 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2015-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-29 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1875.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2015-07-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 13). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-17 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
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 4. Page 2774.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2015-09-12 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3211.)
• 2015-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3212.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2015-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 525, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fde813c5-3ec6-4d87-835a-607138ae055b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).