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Bill	Pharmacy practice: vaccines.	Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy in the Department of Consumer Affairs. A violation of the Pharmacy Law is a crime. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to independently initiate and administer vaccines listed on the routine immunization schedules recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in compliance with individual ACIP vaccine recommendations, and published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for persons 3 years of age or older.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1710	California AB 1710 (20192020)	bill	Pharmacy practice: vaccines.	enacted	Wood	10	30	6	2019-02-22	2020-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/53ef7717-6780-446a-99fe-b2459ed28f03	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1710	fa6d06e48ce1a185fc046ba0b2c5d891e0af20a6d15f7db3effbfd9db7fd0314	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1710 (20192020) — Pharmacy practice: vaccines.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensing and regulation of pharmacists by the California State Board of Pharmacy in the Department of Consumer Affairs. A violation of the Pharmacy Law is a crime. Existing law authorizes a pharmacist to independently initiate and administer vaccines listed on the routine immunization schedules recommended by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in compliance with individual ACIP vaccine recommendations, and published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for persons 3 years of age or older.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/02/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/13/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/24/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1710 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1710 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1710 Wood By Roth — 30–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1710 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-04-04 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-08 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1721.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2009.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-07-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2020-07-02 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. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2020-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2020-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2020-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 0. Page 4347.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2020-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5274.)
• 2020-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5378.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 123, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53ef7717-6780-446a-99fe-b2459ed28f03. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).