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Bill	Pharmacy: electronic prescriptions.	Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes in the Department of Consumer Affairs the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. The Pharmacy Law authorizes a prescriber or a prescriber's authorized agent to electronically enter a prescription into a pharmacy's or hospital's computer from a location outside of the pharmacy or hospital. The Pharmacy Law makes those provisions inapplicable to prescriptions for controlled substances classified in Schedule II, III, IV, or V, except as permitted pursuant to specified provisions. That law generally punishes a knowing violation of its provisions as a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1557	California AB 1557 (20232024)	bill	Pharmacy electronic prescriptions	enacted	Flora	7	23	6	2023-02-17	2023-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/da10ce2b-e70e-4640-b424-81e5386d1833	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1557	4eacd81a913d1d1d6ded3f263ae572955da90b4a8dd52fa1f745efa7d08f6117	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1557 (20232024) — Pharmacy: electronic prescriptions.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes in the Department of Consumer Affairs the California State Board of Pharmacy to license and regulate the practice of pharmacy. The Pharmacy Law authorizes a prescriber or a prescriber's authorized agent to electronically enter a prescription into a pharmacy's or hospital's computer from a location outside of the pharmacy or hospital. The Pharmacy Law makes those provisions inapplicable to prescriptions for controlled substances classified in Schedule II, III, IV, or V, except as permitted pursuant to specified provisions. That law generally punishes a knowing violation of its provisions as a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1557 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/21/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1557 Flora Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1557 Flora Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar AB1557 Flora et al. Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Flora — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Alvarez — coauthor (person)
• Bains — coauthor (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2023-03-09 Referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-03-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2023-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1463.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-17 Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. referral-committee
• 2023-06-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-06-29 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1830.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-06-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 1 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2023-08-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2735.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2023-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 141, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/da10ce2b-e70e-4640-b424-81e5386d1833. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).