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Bill	Health care practitioners: prescriptions: electronic data transmission.	Existing law provides for the regulation of health care practitioners and requires prescription drugs to be ordered and dispensed in accordance with the Pharmacy Law. The Pharmacy Law provides that a prescription is an oral, written, or electronic data transmission order and requires electronic data transmission prescriptions to be transmitted and processed in accordance with specified requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2789	California AB 2789 (20172018)	bill	Health care practitioners: prescriptions: electronic data transmission.	enacted	Wood	8	25	6	2018-02-16	2018-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/1cda924d-7f36-4ea4-8d68-29021786da30	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2789	6b364199ffd4b8020490256b8e7f5f780d3cefa425b9c229987c55f2ffab2da3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2789 (20172018) — Health care practitioners: prescriptions: electronic data transmission.

Existing law provides for the regulation of health care practitioners and requires prescription drugs to be ordered and dispensed in accordance with the Pharmacy Law. The Pharmacy Law provides that a prescription is an oral, written, or electronic data transmission order and requires electronic data transmission prescriptions to be transmitted and processed in accordance with specified requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/17/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2789 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2789 Wood By Hill — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2789 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 70–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2789 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 61–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 2. Page 4938.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-06-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-07-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 5515.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 3. Page 6639.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 438, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1cda924d-7f36-4ea4-8d68-29021786da30. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).