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Bill Pharmacy: health care coverage: claims for prescription drugs sold for retail price. Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, requires a pharmacy to inform a customer at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug whether the retail price is lower than the applicable cost-sharing amount for the prescription drug, except as specified, and, if the customer pays the retail price, requires the pharmacy to submit the claim to the customer's health care service plan or health insurer. us/states/ca California Legislature 20192020 AB 1803 California AB 1803 (20192020)
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California AB 1803 (20192020) — Pharmacy: health care coverage: claims for prescription drugs sold for retail price.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, requires a pharmacy to inform a customer at the point of sale for a covered prescription drug whether the retail price is lower than the applicable cost-sharing amount for the prescription drug, except as specified, and, if the customer pays the retail price, requires the pharmacy to submit the claim to the customer's health care service plan or health insurer.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/28/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 07/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  3. AB1803 (committee substitute) — source
  4. 07/03/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • AB 1803 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — 760 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 90 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 180 (pass) · lower
  • Consent Calendar AB1803 HEALTH (Wood) Urgency Clause — 390 (pass) · upper
  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 150 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Committee on Health — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-02-28 Read first time. To print. reading-1
  • 2019-03-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
  • 2019-03-21 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
  • 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2019-05-01 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
  • 2019-05-02 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2019-05-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1588.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2019-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
  • 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
  • 2019-06-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
  • 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
  • 2019-07-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1880.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2019-07-01 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
  • 2019-07-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
  • 2019-07-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2019-07-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 114, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d1f3b463-f534-4d5b-ae7f-6a4c021046f3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).