republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-403.md

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Bill	End of Life Option Act: sunset.	Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, including, among other things, being a resident of the State of California, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes specified violations of the act a crime, including knowingly coercing or exerting undue influence on an individual to request or ingest an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 403	California SB 403 (20252026)	bill	EndofLifeOptionAct sunset	enacted	Blakespear	7	30	10	2025-02-14	2025-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/0bf56a46-5dab-4dfb-ae48-e6becd2b72d2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB403	e67d098632cb0e0fe18beef22713f878d9870f5a1d5b6d0dafc491952de7412a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 403 (20252026) — End of Life Option Act: sunset.

Existing law, the End of Life Option Act, until January 1, 2031, authorizes an adult who meets certain qualifications, including, among other things, being a resident of the State of California, and who has been determined by their attending physician to be suffering from a terminal disease, as defined, to make a request for an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life. Existing law makes specified violations of the act a crime, including knowingly coercing or exerting undue influence on an individual to request or ingest an aid-in-dying drug for the purpose of ending their life.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/03/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB403 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/17/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–3 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB403 Blakespear Concurrence — 25–9 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 13–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 403 Blakespear Senate Third Reading By Zbur — 59–12 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 26–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Blakespear — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2025-02-26 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Re-referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-04-04 Set for hearing April 23.
• 2025-04-09 Set for hearing April 29 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2025-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 868.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1. Page 940.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-05-06 Set for hearing May 12.
• 2025-05-12 May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1199.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 1492.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-16 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 12. Page 3280.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 9. Page 2986.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 315, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0bf56a46-5dab-4dfb-ae48-e6becd2b72d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).