republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1723.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy: clinics: purchasing drugs at wholesale."
description: "Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of pharmacy by the California State Board of Pharmacy within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes certain clinics to purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, under the direction of a physician and surgeon, to patients registered for care at the clinic, including, among others, a clinic operated by a primary care community or free clinic, operated on separate premises from a licensed clinic, that is open no more than 20 hours per week."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1723"
citation: "California AB 1723 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pharmacy: clinics: purchasing drugs at wholesale."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wood"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73d02aeb-be56-4ae7-877a-56ed6df78045"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723"
source_hash: "7ab28114d3bc4a36fe9bdf18d06448880fec2490497de217b9d5dbe2175f14d8"
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 1723 (20192020) — Pharmacy: clinics: purchasing drugs at wholesale.

Existing law, the Pharmacy Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of pharmacy by the California State Board of Pharmacy within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes certain clinics to purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, under the direction of a physician and surgeon, to patients registered for care at the clinic, including, among others, a clinic operated by a primary care community or free clinic, operated on separate premises from a licensed clinic, that is open no more than 20 hours per week.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723&version=20190AB172399INT)
2. **03/18/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723&version=20190AB172398AMD)
3. **09/20/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723&version=20190AB172396CHP)
4. **AB1723** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723)
5. **09/09/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1723&version=20190AB172397ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1723 Wood By Glazer — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1723 Wood Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wood — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-18** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1588.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-22** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-06-25** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-01** From Consent Calendar.
- **2019-07-01** Ordered to third reading.
- **2019-09-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2553.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 323, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/73d02aeb-be56-4ae7-877a-56ed6df78045`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).