BILL NUMBER:  AB 159
  VETOED	DATE: 10/11/2015




To the Members of the California State Assembly:

I am returning Assembly Bill 159 without my signature.

This bill would permit a pharmaceutical manufacturer to make an
investigational drug available to a patient with an immediately
life-threatening disease on the recommendation of two physicians.

Patients with life threatening conditions should be able to try
experimental drugs, and the United States Food and Drug
Administration's compassionate use program allows this to happen.
The proposed changes to this program will streamline access to these
drugs.  Before authorizing an alternative state pathway, we should
give this federal expedited process a chance to work.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.