California 2015-2016 Regular Session Status: Enacted

AB 679 — Controlled substances.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 778, Statutes of 2015.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  4. ✓
    Passed Senate
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 25, 2015. Enacted.

Odds of enactment

High chance

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Prognosis

Likely to advance 70% · moderate confidence

  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 7 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

  Existing law classifies certain controlled substances into designated schedules. 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 all practitioners authorized to prescribe or dispense these controlled substances. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to provide the history of controlled substances dispensed to an individual to a licensed health care practitioner, pharmacist, or both, providing care or services to the individual. By January 1, 2016, or upon licensure in the case of a pharmacist, or upon receipt of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration registration in the case of another health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense controlled substances, whichever respective event occurs later, existing law requires those persons to apply to the Department of Justice to obtain approval to access information contained in the CURES database regarding the controlled substance history of a patient under his or her care. This bill would extend those January 1, 2016, deadlines to July 1, 2016. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 778, Statutes of 2015.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

  4. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3197.).

  5. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3194.)

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2760.).

  8. From committee: Return to Senate floor for consideration. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (September 11).

  9. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E.D.

  10. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  11. Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 1. Page 2715.)

  12. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  13. Joint Rules 61(a) and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 6. Page 2715.)

  14. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  15. Ordered to second reading.

  16. From inactive file.

  17. Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Bates.

  18. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  19. From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended.

  20. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  21. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  22. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  23. Referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  24. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  25. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 14. Page 1689.)

  26. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  27. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 27).

  28. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5.

  29. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  30. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  31. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (May 13).

  32. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  33. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

  34. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  35. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.

  36. Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  37. From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.

  38. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on · 3 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (121)

121 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

AB 679 ALLEN Concurrence - Urgency Added

Passed 78 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 69002
Democratic 4000
Republican 5000
Total 78002
% of votes cast 98%0%0%3%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Mathis — Yea
O'Donnell — Yea
Perea — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Eggman — Not Voting
Daly — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Burke — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Campos — Yea
Harper — Yea
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Kim — Yea
Gray — Yea
Levine — Yea
Low — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chang — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Medina — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Baker — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chu — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Williams — Not Voting
Wood — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Brown — Yea
Linder — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Salas — Yea
Weber — Yea
Hadley — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Travis Allen — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

Official roll call →

3rd Reading (Supplemental File 1) AB679 Travis Allen By Lara Urgency Clause

Passed 40 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 37000
Democratic 3000
Total 40000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Bates — Yea
Block — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Huff — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Allen — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Yea
Pan — Yea
De León — Yea
Runner — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Hall — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Beall — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Liu — Yea
Monning — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Pavley — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Hancock — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

AB 679 ALLEN Assembly Third Reading

Passed 52 Yea · 14 Nay · 14 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 4414012
Democratic 3001
Republican 5001
Total 5214014
% of votes cast 65%18%0%18%
How each member voted (80)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Nay
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Brown — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Not Voting
Kim — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
McCarty — Not Voting
O'Donnell — Not Voting
Obernolte — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Rodriguez — Not Voting
Steinorth — Yea
Ting — Nay
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Nay
Chang — Yea
Eggman — Nay
Chu — Yea
Cooper — Nay
Frazier — Nay
Chávez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gray — Yea
Lopez — Yea
Harper — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Holden — Yea
Low — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Perea — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Gatto — Nay
Cooley — Nay
Gordon — Not Voting
Hadley — Yea
Dodd — Nay
Bonilla — Not Voting
Baker — Yea
Levine — Nay
Linder — Yea
Mathis — Yea
Medina — Nay
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Not Voting
Santiago — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Williams — Yea
Wood — Yea
Burke — Not Voting
Campos — Not Voting
Mayes — Not Voting
Daly — Not Voting
Nazarian — Not Voting
Gonzalez — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Nay
Eduardo Garcia — Nay
Mark Stone — Nay
Roger Hernández — Yea
Travis Allen — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Not Voting
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Not Voting
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea
Patterson, Joe Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass.

Passed 16 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 2000
Unaffiliated 12001
Republican 2000
Total 16001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Holden — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Daly — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gordon — Not Voting
Chang — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wood — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended.

Passed 6 Yea · 1 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6102
Total 6102
% of votes cast 67%11%0%22%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Alejo — Nay
Maienschein — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Cooley — Not Voting
Gordon — Not Voting
Holden — Yea
Linder — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Gonzalez — Yea

Official roll call →

Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does AB 679 do?
  Existing law classifies certain controlled substances into designated schedules. 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 all practitioners authorized to prescribe or dispense these controlled substances. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to provide the history of controlled substances dispensed to an individual to a licensed health care practitioner, pharmacist, or both, providing care or services to the individual. By January 1, 2016, or upon licensure in the case of a pharmacist, or upon receipt of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration registration in the case of another health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense controlled substances, whichever respective event occurs later, existing law requires those persons to apply to the Department of Justice to obtain approval to access information contained in the CURES database regarding the controlled substance history of a patient under his or her care. This bill would extend those January 1, 2016, deadlines to July 1, 2016. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors AB 679?
AB 679 is sponsored by Travis Allen.
What is the current status of AB 679?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 25, 2015. Enacted.
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