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Bill	Health care practitioners: electronic prescriptions.	Existing law requires health care practitioners authorized to issue prescriptions to have the capability to issue electronic data transmission prescriptions and requires a pharmacy, pharmacist, or other practitioner authorized to dispense or furnish a prescription to have the capability to receive electronic data transmission prescriptions. Existing law requires those health care practitioners to issue a prescription as an electronic data transmission prescription except under certain circumstances, including that the electronic prescription is unavailable due to a temporary technological or electrical failure. Existing law requires a pharmacy that receives an electronic prescription from a prescribing health care practitioner who has issued a prescription but has not dispensed the medication to, at the request of the patient, immediately transfer or forward the electronic prescription to an alternative pharmacy designated by the requester.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 852	California AB 852 (20212022)	bill	Health care practitioners: electronic prescriptions.	enacted	Wood	8	32	9	2021-02-17	2022-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/b61aa248-7829-419d-bc14-8a7e82da3cdf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB852	3582699d6a22e11a47bcf9b67eaba3ae8039e6974999f45d4d6409700ef40a27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 852 (20212022) — Health care practitioners: electronic prescriptions.

Existing law requires health care practitioners authorized to issue prescriptions to have the capability to issue electronic data transmission prescriptions and requires a pharmacy, pharmacist, or other practitioner authorized to dispense or furnish a prescription to have the capability to receive electronic data transmission prescriptions. Existing law requires those health care practitioners to issue a prescription as an electronic data transmission prescription except under certain circumstances, including that the electronic prescription is unavailable due to a temporary technological or electrical failure. Existing law requires a pharmacy that receives an electronic prescription from a prescribing health care practitioner who has issued a prescription but has not dispensed the medication to, at the request of the patient, immediately transfer or forward the electronic prescription to an alternative pharmacy designated by the requester.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/23/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/25/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB852 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 852 Wood Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 852 Wood Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB852 Wood By Dodd — 32–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1538.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-03 Referred to Coms. on B., P. & E.D. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-18 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-22 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-23 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-06-28 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2022-06-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-08-01 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-08-08 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 5186.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-29 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-30 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended.
• 2022-08-30 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 518, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b61aa248-7829-419d-bc14-8a7e82da3cdf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).