{
 "name": "California psychedelics bills and floor votes, 2019 to 2026",
 "description": "Every psychedelics bill in the California Legislature since 2019 with its author, outcome, chaptering and floor votes, plus how members from San Diego County voted.",
 "publisher": "Magic Mushrooms San Diego",
 "url": "https://magicmushroomssandiego.com/california-psychedelics-bills",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "updated": "2026-10-21",
 "record_count": 12,
 "records": [
  {
   "bill": "SB 519",
   "session": "2021-2022",
   "author": "Sen. Scott Wiener (D, SD11)",
   "sd_coauthors": [],
   "summary": "As passed by the Senate, would have made lawful the possession for personal use and the social sharing of psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, LSD, ketamine and MDMA by and with people 21 or older; by its final Aug 15, 2022 version it had been narrowed to requiring the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group to study and recommend how these substances could be regulated.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2021-02-17",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Died (ordered to Assembly inactive file; no further action before the session ended)",
   "outcome_date": "2022-08-25",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2021-06-01",
     "ayes": 21,
     "noes": 16,
     "nvr": 3,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Patricia Bates",
       "district": "SD36",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Toni Atkins",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Ben Hueso",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB519"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "Passed the Senate in June 2021, was narrowed in the Assembly to a study group, and died on the Assembly inactive file when the session ended. No San Diego legislator was an author or coauthor.",
   "short": "Legalize personal possession of psychedelics; narrowed to a study"
  },
  {
   "bill": "SB 58",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Sen. Scott Wiener (D, SD11)",
   "sd_coauthors": [],
   "summary": "Would have made lawful, starting Jan 1, 2025, the possession, preparation, obtaining or transportation of specified personal-use quantities of psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT and mescaline by adults 21 or older (and personal-use cultivation of spores or mycelium that produce psilocybin mushrooms), and required the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup to recommend a framework for therapeutic use.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2022-12-16",
   "outcome": "vetoed",
   "outcome_detail": "Vetoed",
   "outcome_date": "2023-10-07",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2023-05-24",
     "ayes": 21,
     "noes": 16,
     "nvr": 3,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Toni Atkins",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58"
    },
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2023-09-06",
     "ayes": 43,
     "noes": 15,
     "nvr": 22,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58"
    },
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2023-09-07",
     "ayes": 21,
     "noes": 14,
     "nvr": 5,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Toni Atkins",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB58"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "Vetoed Oct 7, 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote that it 'would decriminalize possession prior to these guidelines going into place' and asked for a bill with therapeutic guidelines. No San Diego legislator was an author or coauthor.",
   "short": "Decriminalize personal possession of psilocybin, DMT and mescaline"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 1021",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Asm. Buffy Wicks (D, AD14)",
   "sd_coauthors": [],
   "summary": "Adds Health and Safety Code section 11150.3 so that if any Schedule I substance is moved off federal Schedule I, or an FDA-approved product made from one is rescheduled or exempted federally, California physicians, pharmacists and other authorized licensees may prescribe, furnish and dispense that product in line with federal law (cannabis excluded).",
   "kind": "related",
   "introduced": "2023-02-15",
   "outcome": "enacted",
   "outcome_detail": "Signed (chaptered)",
   "outcome_date": "2023-09-30",
   "chapter": "Chapter 274, Statutes of 2023",
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1021",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2023-05-15",
     "ayes": 69,
     "noes": 1,
     "nvr": 10,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1021"
    },
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2023-09-05",
     "ayes": 35,
     "noes": 2,
     "nvr": 3,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Toni Atkins",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1021"
    },
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2023-09-07",
     "ayes": 69,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 11,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1021"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "The text doesn't name psilocybin or MDMA. It covers any substance in California's Schedule I, so it's often described as a rescheduling trigger for drugs like psilocybin.",
   "short": "Let California prescribe a drug if it leaves federal Schedule I"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 941",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Asm. Marie Waldron (R, AD75)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Marie Waldron (AD75, author)"
   ],
   "summary": "As passed by the Assembly, would have required the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup to recommend a framework for psychedelic-assisted therapy (report due Jan 1, 2026) and, once the Legislature enacted such a framework, authorized lawful use of hallucinogenic or psychedelic substances in that therapy; its March 2023 version (the 'End Veteran Suicide Act') would have let licensed professional clinical counselors administer controlled substances to combat veterans.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2023-02-14",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Died (Senate Health hearing canceled at author's request; session ended)",
   "outcome_date": "2024-07-01",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB941",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2024-01-30",
     "ayes": 58,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 22,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB941"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "Author Marie Waldron represented the 75th Assembly District, which included part of San Diego County. The bill died in the Senate Health Committee.",
   "short": "Workgroup on a framework for psychedelic-assisted therapy"
  },
  {
   "bill": "SB 1012",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Sen. Scott Wiener (D, SD11)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Marie Waldron (AD75, principal coauthor)"
   ],
   "summary": "Would have created a Board of Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators in the Department of Consumer Affairs to license facilitators, and a Division of Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy to license and regulate supervised adult use of DMT, mescaline, MDMA, psilocybin and psilocyn at approved locations (the Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act).",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2024-02-05",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Died (held in Senate Appropriations)",
   "outcome_date": "2024-05-16",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1012",
   "votes": [],
   "notes": "Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee without a floor vote. Marie Waldron, whose district included part of San Diego County, was a principal coauthor.",
   "short": "Licensed, supervised psychedelic-assisted therapy"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 2841",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Asm. Marie Waldron (R, AD75)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Marie Waldron (AD75, author)"
   ],
   "summary": "Urgency law letting the state Research Advisory Panel, which reviews research projects on cannabis and hallucinogenic drugs, hold closed sessions on confidential proposals and meet by teleconference, and requiring it to report to the Legislature on its application backlog by Jan 1, 2026; the provisions are repealed or inoperative Jan 1, 2027.",
   "kind": "related",
   "introduced": "2024-02-15",
   "outcome": "enacted",
   "outcome_detail": "Signed (chaptered, urgency statute)",
   "outcome_date": "2024-07-18",
   "chapter": "Chapter 156, Statutes of 2024",
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2841",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2024-05-09",
     "ayes": 65,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 15,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2841"
    },
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2024-06-27",
     "ayes": 40,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 0,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Toni Atkins",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2841"
    },
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2024-07-03",
     "ayes": 72,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 7,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Marie Waldron",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Maienschein",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2841"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "Related rather than psychedelic-specific: the Research Advisory Panel it reorganized reviews research on cannabis and hallucinogenic drugs, among others.",
   "short": "Research Advisory Panel meeting rules"
  },
  {
   "bill": "SB 803",
   "session": "2023-2024",
   "author": "Sens. Josh Becker (D, SD13) and Brian Jones (R, SD40)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Brian Jones (SD40, co-lead author)",
    "Marie Waldron (AD75, principal coauthor)",
    "Toni Atkins (SD39, coauthor; added in the June 17, 2024 version)"
   ],
   "summary": "As amended June 2024 (the 'Heal Our Heroes Act'), would have created a Psychedelic-Assisted Facilitation Pilot Program, until Jan 1, 2028, letting the public health officers of the City and County of San Francisco, the County of San Diego and the County of Santa Cruz approve up to 5 facilitation centers each to administer psilocybin or psilocyn to screened veterans and former first responders over 21.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2023-02-17",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Died (Assembly Health hearing canceled at author's request; session ended)",
   "outcome_date": "2024-06-25",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB803",
   "votes": [],
   "notes": "The Heal Our Heroes version named the County of San Diego as one of three pilot counties. Its only floor vote (Senate, May 30, 2023) was on an earlier, unrelated version of the bill, so it isn't shown.",
   "short": "Heal Our Heroes psilocybin pilot, naming San Diego County"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 1103",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "author": "Asm. Chris Ward (D, AD78)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Chris Ward (AD78, author)"
   ],
   "summary": "Requires the state Research Advisory Panel to review in-state research projects that involve administering Schedule I or II controlled substances, and lets it fast-track (until Jan 1, 2028) projects with certain federal approvals and independent peer review, including approval by 2 or more deputized members without a full-panel vote; as introduced, it would have exempted DEA-registered studies of psychedelic therapy for veterans at VA facilities from Panel review.",
   "kind": "related",
   "introduced": "2025-02-20",
   "outcome": "enacted",
   "outcome_detail": "Signed (chaptered)",
   "outcome_date": "2025-10-10",
   "chapter": "Chapter 571, Statutes of 2025",
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1103",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2025-05-19",
     "ayes": 75,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 4,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Carl DeMaio",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Darshana Patel",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "LaShae Sharp-Collins",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1103"
    },
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2025-09-08",
     "ayes": 39,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 1,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber Pierson",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1103"
    },
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2025-09-09",
     "ayes": 79,
     "noes": 0,
     "nvr": 1,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Carl DeMaio",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Darshana Patel",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "LaShae Sharp-Collins",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1103"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "Carried by San Diego members in both houses: Chris Ward as author, Steve Padilla as Senate floor manager. 'Psychedelic' appeared only in early versions; the final law covers Schedule I and II research generally.",
   "short": "Faster state review of Schedule I and II research"
  },
  {
   "bill": "SB 751",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "author": "Sens. Josh Becker (D, SD13) and Brian Jones (R, SD40)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Brian Jones (SD40, co-lead author)"
   ],
   "summary": "Would have, until Jan 1, 2031, requested the University of California to set up local pilots in up to 5 counties to research and develop psilocybin services for veterans and former first responders 21 and older, paid for by a continuously appropriated Veterans and Former First Responders Research Pilot Special Fund.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2025-02-21",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Died (held in Senate Appropriations; returned to Secretary of Senate under Joint Rule 56)",
   "outcome_date": "2026-02-02",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB751",
   "votes": [],
   "notes": "Held in the Senate Appropriations Committee and died under the Legislature's deadline for first-year bills. Brian Jones, whose district includes part of San Diego County, was co-lead author.",
   "short": "UC psilocybin pilots for veterans and first responders"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 2489",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "author": "Asm. Josh Lowenthal (D, AD69)",
   "sd_coauthors": [],
   "summary": "The 'California Veterans' Right to Try Act' would have authorized, until Jan 1, 2032, the state Research Advisory Panel to submit an FDA investigational new drug application for a clinical trial of Schedule I or II controlled substances in a patient pool made up only of veterans with conditions that commonly overlap with suicidality.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2026-02-20",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Held in committee (Assembly Appropriations); not passed by the Aug 31, 2026 deadline",
   "outcome_date": "2026-05-14",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2489",
   "votes": [],
   "notes": "Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee in May 2026 and not passed before the Aug 31, 2026 deadline for bills in the session's second year.",
   "short": "Veterans' right to try Schedule I and II trials"
  },
  {
   "bill": "SB 1224",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "author": "Sen. Brian Jones (R, SD40)",
   "sd_coauthors": [
    "Brian Jones (SD40, author)",
    "Laurie Davies (AD74, coauthor; listed in the June 11, 2026 version)"
   ],
   "summary": "As amended June 11, 2026 (the 'California Emerging Therapies Research Partnership Act'), would have created a continuously appropriated fund (no General Fund money; federal grants and private gifts only) run by the Department of Health Care Services and CalVet to give grants to a University of California campus to anchor federally registered clinical trials of 'emerging therapies' (psilocybin, ibogaine, MDMA, DMT and ketamine), and required the state to apply for a federal ARPA-H partnership designation.",
   "kind": "psychedelic",
   "introduced": "2026-02-19",
   "outcome": "died",
   "outcome_detail": "Held in committee (Assembly Appropriations); not passed by the Aug 31, 2026 deadline",
   "outcome_date": "2026-08-13",
   "chapter": null,
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1224",
   "votes": [],
   "notes": "Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee in August 2026. Its only floor vote (Senate, May 28, 2026) was on an earlier, unrelated version of the bill, so it isn't shown.",
   "short": "UC-anchored research fund for emerging therapies"
  },
  {
   "bill": "AB 113",
   "session": "2025-2026",
   "author": "Asm. Jesse Gabriel (D, AD46)",
   "sd_coauthors": [],
   "summary": "A 2026 budget bill amending the Budget Act of 2026; among many items, it appropriates $4,700,000 under Item 0530-001-0001, Schedule (2.5) '0287-California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine', and Provision 8 states that this amount 'is for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine for veterans' psychedelic research.'",
   "kind": "budget",
   "introduced": "2025-01-08",
   "outcome": "enacted",
   "outcome_detail": "Signed (chaptered, urgency budget bill)",
   "outcome_date": "2026-09-18",
   "chapter": "Chapter 248, Statutes of 2026",
   "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB113",
   "votes": [
    {
     "house": "Senate",
     "date": "2026-09-01",
     "ayes": 29,
     "noes": 4,
     "nvr": 6,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Steve Padilla",
       "district": "SD18",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Kelly Seyarto",
       "district": "SD32",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Catherine Blakespear",
       "district": "SD38",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Akilah Weber Pierson",
       "district": "SD39",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Brian Jones",
       "district": "SD40",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB113"
    },
    {
     "house": "Assembly",
     "date": "2026-09-01",
     "ayes": 61,
     "noes": 11,
     "nvr": 7,
     "sd_members": [
      {
       "name": "Laurie Davies",
       "district": "AD74",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "nvr"
      },
      {
       "name": "Carl DeMaio",
       "district": "AD75",
       "party": "R",
       "vote": "no"
      },
      {
       "name": "Darshana Patel",
       "district": "AD76",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Tasha Boerner",
       "district": "AD77",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "Chris Ward",
       "district": "AD78",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "LaShae Sharp-Collins",
       "district": "AD79",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      },
      {
       "name": "David Alvarez",
       "district": "AD80",
       "party": "D",
       "vote": "aye"
      }
     ],
     "source": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB113"
    }
   ],
   "notes": "An omnibus budget bill: the psychedelic research money is one provision, so a vote on AB 113 isn't a vote on psychedelics as such. Its March 2025 Assembly vote, on an earlier version, isn't shown.",
   "short": "Budget money for veterans' psychedelic research"
  }
 ]
}
