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Bill	Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies.	Existing law imposes specified requirements on an audit of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan, and defines certain terms for its purposes, including, among others, pharmacy benefit manager.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 627	California AB 627 (20152016)	bill	Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies.	enacted	Gomez	7	22	6	2015-02-24	2015-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b1cc3fac-d746-4626-97e8-83924834b01d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB627	10b6a9df2f9a0a746c4d267691da6e7e339c396cbdf743bdbdd7d03f5a16dc8c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 627 (20152016) — Pharmacy benefit managers: contracting pharmacies.

Existing law imposes specified requirements on an audit of pharmacy services provided to beneficiaries of a health benefit plan, and defines certain terms for its purposes, including, among others, pharmacy benefit manager.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/16/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/13/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB627 (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/29/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #3 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 627 GOMEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 627 GOMEZ Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gomez — primary (person)
• Stone — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-24 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-25 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2015-03-26 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. 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
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1343.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-21 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2015-05-27 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
• 2015-06-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2015-06-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-17 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2015-06-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1549.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-06-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2140.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2015-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 74, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1cc3fac-d746-4626-97e8-83924834b01d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).