republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1731.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "CURES database: buprenorphine."
description: "Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of Schedule II, Schedule III, and Schedule IV controlled substances by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense a Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substance. Existing law requires a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance to consult the patient activity report or information from the patient activity report obtained from CURES, as specified. Existing law exempts a health care practitioner from the duty to consult the CURES database in certain circumstances, including when a health care practitioner prescribes, orders, administers, or furnishes a controlled substance in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital and the quantity of the controlled substances does not exceed a nonrefillable 7-day supply of the controlled substance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1731"
citation: "California AB 1731 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CURES database", "buprenorphine"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f4292f8-ac08-4f59-8c8b-f25028d9c8a2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1731"
source_hash: "5e702d0bc8ec388a3201b6b9cbf259fefbe9693b505d95f8c25bca9bf9b797d8"
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 1731 (20232024) — CURES database: buprenorphine.

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES) for the electronic monitoring of the prescribing and dispensing of Schedule II, Schedule III, and Schedule IV controlled substances by a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense a Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substance. Existing law requires a health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance to consult the patient activity report or information from the patient activity report obtained from CURES, as specified. Existing law exempts a health care practitioner from the duty to consult the CURES database in certain circumstances, including when a health care practitioner prescribes, orders, administers, or furnishes a controlled substance in the emergency department of a general acute care hospital and the quantity of the controlled substances does not exceed a nonrefillable 7-day supply of the controlled substance.

## 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=202320240AB1731&version=20230AB173199INT)
2. **09/01/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1731&version=20230AB173197CHP)
3. **AB1731** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1731)
4. **08/21/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1731&version=20230AB173198ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1731 Santiago Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1731 Santiago By Roth — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Santiago — primary (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 B. & P. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1181.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-08** From Consent Calendar.
- **2023-06-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2023-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2136.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 144, 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/7f4292f8-ac08-4f59-8c8b-f25028d9c8a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).