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Bill	Business: preserving access to affordable drugs.	The Cartwright Act makes every trust, subject to specified exemptions, unlawful, against public policy, and void and defines "trust" for purposes of the act as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons, defined as corporations, firms, partnerships, and associations, for certain designated purposes. Under existing law, these purposes include creating or carrying out restrictions in trade or commerce or preventing competition in manufacturing, marketing, transportation, sale, or purchase of merchandise, produce, or any commodity. The Unfair Practices Act makes certain business practices unlawful, including unfair competition. Under existing law, unfair competition is defined to include an unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice, unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising, and any false representations to the public.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 824	California AB 824 (20192020)	bill	Business: preserving access to affordable drugs.	enacted	Wood	9	28	10	2019-02-20	2019-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/c7c6815d-ed3b-462e-bad2-74e30d697413	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB824	01558c391c08abbc4e28cc72e0c6c71d36878ac6c81d211380a1a88e91e7a75a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 824 (20192020) — Business: preserving access to affordable drugs.

The Cartwright Act makes every trust, subject to specified exemptions, unlawful, against public policy, and void and defines "trust" for purposes of the act as a combination of capital, skill, or acts by 2 or more persons, defined as corporations, firms, partnerships, and associations, for certain designated purposes. Under existing law, these purposes include creating or carrying out restrictions in trade or commerce or preventing competition in manufacturing, marketing, transportation, sale, or purchase of merchandise, produce, or any commodity. The Unfair Practices Act makes certain business practices unlawful, including unfair competition. Under existing law, unfair competition is defined to include an unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business act or practice, unfair, deceptive, untrue, or misleading advertising, and any false representations to the public.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/07/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB824 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 824 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 56–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 824 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 64–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB824 Wood et al. By Hertzberg — 31–8 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)
• Melendez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2019-03-04 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 0. Page 1978.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-24 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-09-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-09-04 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2816.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 1. Page 3508.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 531, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c7c6815d-ed3b-462e-bad2-74e30d697413. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).