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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1773: Pharmacy benefit managers.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1773 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 9, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Pharmacy benefit managers. Primary sponsor: Blanca Rubio (D). Most recent recorded action (June 30, 2026): In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care, and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a pharmacy benefit manager contracting with a health care service plan or health insurer to secure a license from the Department of Managed Health Care on or after January 1, 2027, or the date on which the department has established the licensure process, whichever is later.

This bill would require the department to maintain a public internet website displaying specified information for each licensed pharmacy benefit manager, including, among other things, the legal name, license number, and license expiration date.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Blanca RubioPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly48

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  2. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  3. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  4. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4916.)
  5. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  6. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 22).
  7. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  8. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  9. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
  10. Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  11. From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
  12. Read first time. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page