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type: "Bill"
title: "Health care: prescription drugs."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to enter into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts on a bid or negotiated basis with manufacturers and suppliers of single-source or multisource drugs. Existing law authorizes the department to obtain from those manufacturers and suppliers discounts, rebates, or refunds based on quantities purchased, as permissible under federal law. Existing law authorizes those contracts to include price discounts, rebates, refunds, or other strategies aimed at managing escalating prescription drug prices. Existing law requires certain state agencies to participate in that prescription drug bulk purchasing program, including the State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Developmental Services. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 852"
citation: "California SB 852 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health care: prescription drugs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a83e0f3b-3f37-4de2-bec4-3a58413e213e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852"
source_hash: "d68b569d70221ae7d161ea036a60ae08ab43c0c235cc26206bafcb69188927cf"
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 SB 852 (20192020) — Health care: prescription drugs.
Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services to enter into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts on a bid or negotiated basis with manufacturers and suppliers of single-source or multisource drugs. Existing law authorizes the department to obtain from those manufacturers and suppliers discounts, rebates, or refunds based on quantities purchased, as permissible under federal law. Existing law authorizes those contracts to include price discounts, rebates, refunds, or other strategies aimed at managing escalating prescription drug prices. Existing law requires certain state agencies to participate in that prescription drug bulk purchasing program, including the State Department of State Hospitals and the State Department of Developmental Services. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/13/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85299INT)
2. **03/16/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85298AMD)
3. **05/19/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85297AMD)
4. **06/18/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85296AMD)
5. **08/13/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85295AMD)
6. **08/24/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85294AMD)
7. **09/28/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85292CHP)
8. **SB852** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852)
9. **09/02/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB852&version=20190SB85293ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB852 Pan et al. Concurrence — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- SB 852 Pan Senate Third Reading By Wood — **66–7** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **31–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **13–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **5–1** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Pan — primary (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-13** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-14** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13.
- **2020-01-22** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-11** Set for hearing May 13 in HEALTH pending receipt.
- **2020-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2. Page 3533.) (May 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
- **2020-06-09** June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2020-06-11** Set for hearing June 18.
- **2020-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3766.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 3844.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-03** August 4 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-08-03** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-05** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2020-08-12** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-18** August 18 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2020-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 7. Page 5415.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-31** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-31** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2020-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 207, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a83e0f3b-3f37-4de2-bec4-3a58413e213e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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