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Bill	Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form: electronic registry pilot.	Existing law defines a request regarding resuscitative measures as a written document, signed by an individual with capacity, or a legally recognized health care decisionmaker, and the individual's physician, directing a health care provider regarding resuscitative measures. Existing law defines a Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form, which is commonly referred to as a POLST form, and provides that a request regarding resuscitative measures includes a POLST form. Existing law requires that a POLST form and the medical intervention and procedures offered by the form be explained by a health care provider. Existing law distinguishes a request regarding resuscitative measures from an advance health care directive.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 19	California SB 19 (20152016)	bill	Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form: electronic registry pilot.	enacted	Wolk	10	35	11	2014-12-01	2015-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/d1dae52d-cb6d-43df-b67d-d1c7ff1bb602	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB19	446dc7de52036dfa7b8a478de940adfa191aa986ee4a80f545ad58e736e2d93d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 19 (20152016) — Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form: electronic registry pilot.

Existing law defines a request regarding resuscitative measures as a written document, signed by an individual with capacity, or a legally recognized health care decisionmaker, and the individual's physician, directing a health care provider regarding resuscitative measures. Existing law defines a Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment form, which is commonly referred to as a POLST form, and provides that a request regarding resuscitative measures includes a POLST form. Existing law requires that a POLST form and the medical intervention and procedures offered by the form be explained by a health care provider. Existing law distinguishes a request regarding resuscitative measures from an advance health care directive.

Version chain

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

1. 12/01/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/02/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/04/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/05/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. SB19 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/10/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 19 Wolk Senate Third Reading By DABABNEH — 67–10 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB19 Wolk Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 19 Wolk Senate Third Reading By DABABNEH — 64–11 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wolk — primary (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Dababneh — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Hancock — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-12-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2014-12-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 1.
• 2015-01-15 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-03-10 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2015-03-25 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 544.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-21 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2015-05-04 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 817.) (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-05-08 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2015-05-18 May 18 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-06-01 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1145.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1299.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-15 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (July 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-07-16 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-31 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 10. Page 2791.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
• 2015-09-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-04 Read third time and amended. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
• 2015-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 64. Noes 11. Page 2968.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2671.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10:45 p.m.
• 2015-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 504, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1dae52d-cb6d-43df-b67d-d1c7ff1bb602. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).