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Bill	Pharmacy: safe storage products.	Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and provides that a violation of that law is punishable as a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2859	California AB 2859 (20172018)	bill	Pharmacy: safe storage products.	enacted	Caballero	10	27	6	2018-02-16	2018-08-28	openstates	ocd-bill/9ed73c1c-87f9-41fd-820c-3a8f226409a2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2859	0eb65c970a3ce406f710f86d6cbe32ee4749aefdf359edadcc2133349f69f4e9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2859 (20172018) — Pharmacy: safe storage products.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies by the California State Board of Pharmacy, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs, and provides that a violation of that law is punishable as a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/30/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/19/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/28/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2859 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/14/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2859 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — 58–8 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2859 Caballero et al. By McGuire — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2859 CABALLERO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (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
• 2018-04-02 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
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-12 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. 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
• 2018-05-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 8. Page 5033.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-17 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. referral-committee
• 2018-05-21 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-30 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-19 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-21 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. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 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
• 2018-08-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 5240.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 3. Page 6244.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-08-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-08-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 240, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9ed73c1c-87f9-41fd-820c-3a8f226409a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).