republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1651.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors."
description: "Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. Existing law defines \"volunteer\" and \"trained personnel\" for these purposes to mean an employee who has volunteered to administer epinephrine auto-injectors, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1651"
citation: "California AB 1651 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health", "emergency medical care", "epinephrine auto-injectors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanchez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c4179e8-8680-44e7-ac1f-1a2abdd55767"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651"
source_hash: "771e6ec5a913b13d62ce9eac396804d8332856bb0f291a41bee0a5fdc8695306"
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 1651 (20232024) — Pupil health: emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors.

Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. Existing law defines "volunteer" and "trained personnel" for these purposes to mean an employee who has volunteered to administer epinephrine auto-injectors, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651&version=20230AB165199INT)
2. **03/30/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651&version=20230AB165198AMD)
3. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651&version=20230AB165196CHP)
4. **AB1651** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651)
5. **09/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1651&version=20230AB165197ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1651 Sanchez Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1651 Sanchez et al. By Archuleta — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sanchez — primary (person)
- Archuleta — 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 ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-03-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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. 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 ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-08** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2691.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-12** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 588, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c4179e8-8680-44e7-ac1f-1a2abdd55767`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).