republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-908.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fentanyl: child deaths."
description: "Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer various programs relating to public health. The department administers the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard that provides data on state- and local-level drug-related overdose outcomes for California, including, among other data, the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdoses. Existing law requires the department to update the dashboard to reflect additional information, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 908"
citation: "California SB 908 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fentanyl", "child deaths"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/add29611-8b4f-4055-b287-60428d36dbbe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908"
source_hash: "e0431bc17e3b361255ec713e5bd1000bb130ba81a3d765c67b83b42c9804948a"
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 908 (20232024) — Fentanyl: child deaths.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer various programs relating to public health. The department administers the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard that provides data on state- and local-level drug-related overdose outcomes for California, including, among other data, the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdoses. Existing law requires the department to update the dashboard to reflect additional information, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/08/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90899INT)
2. **03/20/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90898AMD)
3. **04/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90897AMD)
4. **05/16/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90896AMD)
5. **08/20/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90895AMD)
6. **09/28/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90893CHP)
7. **SB908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908)
8. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB908&version=20230SB90894ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB908 Cortese et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB908 Cortese et al. — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 908 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Arambula — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cortese — primary (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- McGuire — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-09** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 8.
- **2024-03-20** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-20** 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`
- **2024-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-05** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3754.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-29** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2024-05-06** May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2024-05-10** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3963.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4136.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** Coauthors revised.
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-19** June 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-20** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6519.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2024-08-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5612.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 867, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/add29611-8b4f-4055-b287-60428d36dbbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).