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ASSEMBLY BILL 3876 (FILANTE � 1984)

CHAPTER 1635, STATUTES OF 1984, AB 3876

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Numerous sections of the Business and Professions Code, Education Code, Government Code, Health and Safety Code, Insurance Code, Penal Code, Public Utilities Code, Vehicle Code and Welfare and Institutions Code were affected in 1984 following legislative passage of Assembly Bill 3876. (See Exhibit #1f) Assembly member William Filante introduced the bill on February 17, 1984 at the request of the Attorney General’s Office. (See Exhibits #1a and #16, document PE-8)

Assembly Bill 3876 was assigned to the Assembly Committee on Criminal Law and Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Judiciary where policy issues raised by the bill were considered. (See Exhibits #3 and #7) The fiscal ramifications of the bill were considered by the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance. (See Exhibits #2 and #5)

Four amendments were made to Assembly Bill 3876 during the legislative process. (See Exhibits #1b through #1e and #2) Subsequent to legislative approval, Governor George Deukmejian signed the bill on September 29, 1984, and it was recorded by the Secretary of State on the following day as Chapter 1635 of the Statutes of 1984. (See Exhibits #1f and #2)

The Senate Republican Caucus analysis of Assembly Bill 3876 provides the following digest of the bill as it was last amended on August 27, 1984:

This bill (1) revises California’s controlled substances schedules to make them generally parallel with federal schedules and (2) makes laws regulating prescriptions subject to California’s schedules rather than the federal schedules.
(See Exhibit #13, page 1)