republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1283.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers."
description: "Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1283"
citation: "California AB 1283 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health", "emergency stock albuterol inhalers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chen"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/509e4611-bba8-461f-85df-c40c1207adfb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283"
source_hash: "86c7a2d0519c86663782c807530ff6414143d0f7842d608b938f20a3bc7278bf"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1283 (20232024) — Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers.

Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128399INT)
2. **03/23/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128398AMD)
3. **05/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128397AMD)
4. **06/27/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128396AMD)
5. **08/21/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128395AMD)
6. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128393CHP)
7. **AB1283** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283)
8. **09/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1283&version=20230AB128394ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1283 Chen et al. By Grove — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1283 Chen Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1283 Chen Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chen — primary (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-23** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1596.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-31** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2550.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-12** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3228.)
- **2023-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3238.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 574, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/509e4611-bba8-461f-85df-c40c1207adfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).