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Bill	Emergency room patient prescriptions.	Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies. Existing law authorizes a prescriber to dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if specified requirements are met, including that the dangerous drug is acquired by the hospital pharmacy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 447	California AB 447 (20252026)	bill	Emergencyroompatientprescriptions	enacted	Mark González	7	26	7	2025-02-06	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2074c002-7733-4c25-94d1-e79b2ba94db3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB447	55aa4dcba308c155c62dedb9efa219d80b892b127361d045df0ae22d068da6b7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 447 (20252026) — Emergency room patient prescriptions.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, establishes the California State Board of Pharmacy for the licensure and regulation of pharmacists and pharmacies. Existing law authorizes a prescriber to dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if specified requirements are met, including that the dangerous drug is acquired by the hospital pharmacy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/09/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB447 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/27/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd AB447 Mark González — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 447 Mark González Consent Calendar Second Day — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark González — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 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
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1662.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-04 Referred to Coms. on B. P. & E.D. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2250.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-26 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 363, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2074c002-7733-4c25-94d1-e79b2ba94db3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).