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Bill	Nonpharmacological pain management treatment.	Existing law sets forth the Pain Patient's Bill of Rights, which grants a patient who suffers from severe chronic intractable pain the option to request or reject the use of any or all modalities to relieve their pain.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2585	California AB 2585 (20212022)	bill	Nonpharmacological pain management treatment.	enacted	McCarty	5	22	6	2022-02-18	2022-08-22	openstates	ocd-bill/bc78a8ef-11fc-400c-a868-118fd9213432	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2585	00fcfb7605124b528282d498127417b568729a8d56655b26cecf2ec61de9d215	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2585 (20212022) — Nonpharmacological pain management treatment.

Existing law sets forth the Pain Patient's Bill of Rights, which grants a patient who suffers from severe chronic intractable pain the option to request or reject the use of any or all modalities to relieve their pain.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/27/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/22/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2585 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2585 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2585 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2585 McCarty Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5035.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-01 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2022-06-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2022-06-30 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-08-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-03 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4686.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 10 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5876.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-08-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-08-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc78a8ef-11fc-400c-a868-118fd9213432. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).