CaliforniaPharmacies: license discipline: stipulated settlement and disciplinary order.
What it does
Under existing state law, the Pharmacy Law, the California State Board of Pharmacy licenses and regulates the practice of pharmacy in this state. Existing law sets forth various disciplinary actions, including license suspension or revocation, against licensees for offenses committed under those licensing provisions. Existing law requires discipline proceedings to be conducted in accordance with the administrative adjudicative provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
More detail
Existing law authorizes an agency to formulate and issue a decision by settlement, as provided, except in an adjudicative proceeding to determine whether an occupational license should be revoked, suspended, limited, or conditioned, existing law prohibits a settlement from being made before issuance of the agency pleading.
This bill would authorize the board and licensee to enter into a stipulated settlement and disciplinary order to license discipline without and in advance of the filing of an agency pleading, notwithstanding the above-referenced requirement concerning the APA, and if prescribed conditions are met, including, among others, that the licensee willingly waives the administrative adjudicative procedures of the APA and the licensee submitted mitigation and rehabilitation information, as provided. The bill would require a specified committee of the board to consider the mitigation and rehabilitation information and authorize the committee to extend a stipulated settlement and discipline order offer to the licensee, as provided. The bill would require that the stipulated settlement and disciplinary order be agreed to in writing between the committee and the licensee within 60 calendar days of the date of the licensee's waiver of the administrative adjudicative procedures of the APA, as provided. The bill would provide that the stipulated settlement and disciplinary order is contingent upon approval by the board, as provided.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Aug 13In committee: Held under submission.Latest
- Aug 3In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 29From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 3Referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D.Minor
- May 21In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 2141 Patterson Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 21Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5222.)Passed Assembly
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 14Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5030.)
- May 13In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Apr 22From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 21
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7Coauthors revised.
- Mar 24In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- Mar 23Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.Minor
- Mar 19From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 19Referred to Coms. on B. & P. and JUD.Minor
- Feb 19From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- Feb 18Read first time. To print.Introduced